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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.
Shop Talk: Better Design for the Disadvantaged, Design Students, and Eliphalet Nott
Better design for all: Michael Graves, the architect, household-goods designer, and Princeton University faculty member, is lending his name to a new effort by the American Institute of Architecture Schools to encourage students to create good, affordable designs for people with physical disadvantages. The campaign seeks to raise at least $2-million for Freedom by Design, which supports architecture students’ projects that offer “modest design/build solutions” to problems facing those with physical disabilities—such as Mr. Graves, who was paralyzed from the chest down by a 2003 infection. According to Interior Design, students from five architecture schools will be chosen to work on projects with Mr. Graves.
Better design for presidents: In 1861, the longtime president of Union College, Eliphalet Nott, finally moved out of quarters in the college’s south colonnade—which was designed by Joseph Jacques Ramée and is believed to have influenced Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia—and into a proper president’s house. Now the handsome neo-Classical house is itself a landmark. It was designed by Nott’s grandson, Edward Tuckerman Potter, who also designed Union’s famous Nott Memorial, and the house still serves the college’s presidents. The latest occupants, Stephen C. Ainlay and his wife, Judith, have redecorated with the home’s history in mind, according to the Daily Gazette, a newspaper in the college’s hometown, Schenectady, N.Y.
Better design in Chelsea: In New York City, the School of the Visual Arts has signed a 26-year lease on a two-screen movie theater on 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood, and will renovate both the interior and exterior to designs by Milton Glaser, the designer, who is a faculty member at the school. The building, with 350- and 550-seat auditoriums, will be used for classes as well as for lectures, film screenings, and other public events, according to a news release.
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Kudos to Michael Graves, AIA schools and Freedom by Design. The recognition of the needs of people with disabilities has been a long time coming. We all want to live in a comfortable and safe home. As an interior designer and parent of a young man with a disability, I have been aware of the problem for years. I encourage my clients to consider making their home more “adaptive” when remodeling or building new. Baby Boomers are fast approaching retirement. The need for affordable, adaptive designs will become more universal.
www.mecdesignstudio.com
— Merri Cvetan Mar 3, 12:30 PM #