26 January 2009 | Materials, Monitoring, Projects, Publications
by Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 1/23/2009
Looking for a prefabricated home for an infill location that's moderately priced, factory-built and sustainable? Then look no further than Builder LivingHome, a collaboration between Kieran Timberlake, the American Institute of Architects's 2008 Firm of the Year, and developer LivingHomes. Continue reading...
22 January 2009 | Educational, Projects
How do we find the means to transform and translate the religious and spiritual life of Wellesley College along a multi-faith paradigm?
In 2006 we were asked to reprogram approximately 10,000 feet of space in the lower level of the Houghton Memorial Chapel which has, for over 100 years, provided a space for religious, spiritual, musical, academic and community life on the campus.
12 January 2009 | Announcements, Offsite Fabrication, Residential
KieranTimberlake has teamed up with LivingHomes, Profile Structures, and Color Design Art to create a modular show home for Builder magazine. The home will be on display at the 2009 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, January 20-23. You can take a virtual tour of the project on the Builder website.
Boyce Thompson, Builder magazine's editorial director, writes:
Next week, four semi-trailers will leave a factory in Southern California carrying the modules and panels that make up our show home for this year's International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. The convoy will idle across the street in a parking lot, waiting for the convention floor to open for exhibitors. Then, when the doors roll up at 12:01 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, crews will race the components to the floor and begin a mad, five-day race to ready the home for visitors.
If you are going to the IBS this year, check out the Builder LivingHome. We've been working for more than a year on this super-sustainable "mod" home. The experience of navigating the nascent modular industry to line up a builder, an architect, a factory, and suppliers is an interesting story in itself. But it is sure to be eclipsed by the home itself, which speaks volumes about the trends that are likely to preoccupy builders for the next several decades. Continue reading...
7 January 2009 | Media Coverage
The New Republic
The Year in Architecture
by Sarah Williams Goldhagen
When environmentalism finally became cool.
Post Date January 6, 2009
To accurately assess trends in architecture and urbanism one needs a time horizon longer than 365 days. Just to design a building often takes longer than that. Even so, 2008 may come to be seen as a watershed year for contemporary architecture. Continue reading...
