Traditional Building Magazine Table of Contents June 2008

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VOL. 21/NO. 3 june 2008

Table of Contents

PROFILE
Organized Complexity
Michael Mehaffy's career as a designer, builder and planner has always focused on
the importance of traditional building as essential to achieving true sustainability. By Kim A. O'Connell

FEATURES
Specifying Sustainability
Architects discuss sustainable products with true staying power, as opposed to what some have called "gizmo green." By Kim A. O'Connell

Sustainable Stewardship
In a recent speech given upon the acceptance of the Vincent Scully award, Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, argues that historic preservation plays an essential role in fighting climate change. By Richard Moe

2008 PALLADIO AWARDS
People's Piazza
New Design & Construction –
more than 30,000 sq.ft.
Winner: Pier Carlo Bontempi Architettura Civile & Disegno Urbano, Parma, Italy
Project: Place de Toscane, Val d'Europe, France

Full Court Press
New Design & Construction –
less than 30,000 sq.ft.
Winner: Khoury & Vogt Architects, Alys Beach, FL
Project: Fonville Press, Alys Beach, FL

Downtown Revival
Restoration & Renovation
Winner: White & Borgognoni Architects, P.C.,
Carbondale, IL
Project: Union Station, Springfield, IL

Temple in the Hill
Sympathetic Addition
Winner: RMJM Hillier, Philadelphia, PA
Project: Entry and addition to the Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA

BOOK REVIEWS
Plaster Revisited
Plastering, by J. T. Sawyer. Reviewed by David Flaharty

In Praise of the Lowly
Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier, by Adam Mornement and Simon Holloway. Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagné

AWARDS
2008 Driehaus Prize and Henry Hope Reed Award
The 2008 Richard H. Driehaus Prize goes to Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). Journalist Roger Kennedy is the recipient of the Henry Hope Reed Award.

2008 Arthur Ross Awards
The 27th annual Arthur Ross Awards recognize individuals and organizations for a body of work that has promoted the Classical tradition through architecture, artisanship, stewardship, education and publishing.

THE FORUM
Poetics and Science
By Michael Lykoudis

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