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Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Anne Stephenson
Even the greenest construction project increases a college’s carbon footprint.
Other News
Land-Rich Universities Weigh New Options for Real-Estate Development
Universities are taking advantage of new ways to develop their holdings through corporate partnerships, a new report says.
U. of Iowa Begins Mucking Out and Assessing the Damage
The university's insurer spent the weekend starting to assess the damage to the auditorium and 19 other flooded buildings.
U. of Iowa Flooding Takes Costly Toll in Research and Equipment
Parking lots are under water, some roads leading to the campus are closed, and the campus utility infrastructure is damaged.
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
Dancers Displace Architecture Students in a Mies Landmark
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago takes over S.R. Crown Hall this weekend (photograph by Lawrence Biemiller).
The Illinois Institute of Technology’s S.R. Crown Hall is normally home to architecture students, who fill its vast, open interior with partitions, drawing tables, stools, building models, floor plans, pens, Macbooks, clothing, shoes, and takeout containers — the usual clutter of architecture-studio life. But this coming weekend, the building, long considered one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s masterpieces, becomes a performance space for the dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
Newcity Chicago previews an unusual collaboration between IIT and the well-known dance company. Performers and audience members will move around the building during the shows: For one piece, dancers will perform on a ramp in front of seated viewers, but for the next, the dancers and the audience change places. And for the third piece, the audience will surround the performers.
The Crown Hall performances were suggested by Dirk Denison, an assistant professor of architecture at IIT who also has his own practice, Dirk Denison Architects.
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