http://www.culvahouse.net a resource for design and architectural communication Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:10:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Intelligent Design,” McCallie Magazine Tulanian http://www.culvahouse.net/tva/reviews/ I have not spread myself as thin in the realm of community service as I have in most areas. The following four organizations are the ones to which I chiefly devote energy and resources. I support them because they are effective. http://www.culvahouse.net/beneficence/117/ Since its founding in 1951, the Nature Conservancy has protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide. http://www.culvahouse.net/beneficence/nature-conservancy/ Located in Montgomery, Alabama--the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement--the Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin, two local lawyers who shared a commitment to racial equality. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond. Throughout its history, the SPLC has worked to make ... http://www.culvahouse.net/beneficence/southern-poverty-law-center/ Public Architecture identifies and solves practical problems of human interaction in the built environment and acts as a catalyst for public discourse through education, advocacy, and the design of public spaces and amenities. Supported by the generosity of foundation, corporate, and individuals grants and donations, Public Architecture works outside the ... http://www.culvahouse.net/beneficence/public-architecture-2/ I belong to FCCB--the First Congregational Church of Berkeley--a United Church of Christ congregation led by Rev. Patricia de Jong, who previously served with William Sloan Coffin at New York's Riverside Church. The UCC is the first main-stream church in North America to have ordained an African-American (1785), a woman ... http://www.culvahouse.net/beneficence/first-congregational-church-of-berkeley/ What this has to do with New Orleans won't be immediately apparent. (It will become clearer as the book develops.) But what it illustrates is a fact of architectural design, which is that, when you are looking at a floorplan, it is pretty easy to imagine the front face of ... http://www.culvahouse.net/new-orleans/imagining-the-back/ A growing collection of "how-to" guides, by a variety of authors (including me). Click on a title to download a PDF. Amazing arcCA Design Awards Guide From arcCA 07.3, "Comparing Awards," an extensive guide to national and international architecture design awards programs. Proven effective. Confessions of a Design Reviewer: Ten Guidelines for Coming ... http://www.culvahouse.net/tips-and-guides/100/ Here are some Bay Area-based folk who are expert at helping architects and others manage practice and projects. http://www.culvahouse.net/management-consultants/91/ Adi Shamir is the Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture and the author of Open House: Unbound Space and the Modern Dwelling (New York: Rizzoli, 2002). http://www.culvahouse.net/design-scholars/adi-shamir/