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Facade Games
- Paper by James Tice
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this

January 24, 2020
Air Spaces Changed Everything
- Paper by Gerry Lang, M.Arch., (Penn, 2008), B. Arch (hons., Toronto, 1978) OAA, AIA,TSA, Senior Associate, Leader of Facades Group
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create…
March 19, 2020
The Tectonics of Flimsiness
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI
Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural

March 22, 2020
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020