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Ads Architects 1, het imago van de architect in de reclame. Een compilatie van 15 jaar internationale reclamespots met architecten. Een project van Arconiko architecten en Gerd Streng, 2003.

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The American Institute of Architects has awarded its highest annual honor, the AIA Gold Medal, to Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie. The 76-year-old architect, who apprenticed under legendary 20th-century architect Louis Kahn (himself a Gold Medal recipient), is perhaps most famous for his first solo project, Habitat 67. Safdie designed the futuristic residential complex of 158 stacked concrete units as part of his master's thesis at McGill University. It was eventually built as a pavilion for Expo 67 in Montreal.

Other notable projects by Safdie's firmwhich is based in Boston and also has offices in Jerusalem, Toronto, Singapore, and Shanghaiinclude the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, and the Marina Bay Sands mixed-use megastructure in Singapore (a theater, museum, hotel, and convention center rolled into one complex).

Safdie, who moved to Montreal with his family from Israel in 1953, is a citizen of Israel, Canada, and the United States. In 1995, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

In a letter nominating Safdie for the AIA prize, Emily Grandstaff-Rice*, president of the Boston Society of Architects, wrote that he "has continued to practice architecture in the purest and most complete sense of the word, without regard for fashion, with a hunger to follow ideals and ideas across the globe in his teaching, writing, practice and research." With a flair for bold geometric forms that echo the influence of his mentor, Kahn, Safdie is an architect's architect, a designer who has built dozens of elegant, thoughtful, but not necessarily starchitect-making projects all over the world. (His latest, an addition to Singapore's Changi Airport, began construction only this week.)

The AIA Gold Medal honors individuals whose work has had lasting influence on the architectural world. Last year's award went posthumously to Julia Morgan, the first woman to receive the honor in the award's seven-decade history. (A new change in the rules allowing two individual architects to share the award went into effect in 2014, but this was apparently not Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi's year.) Safdie is the 71st architect to receive the prize, which will be awarded at the organization's annual conference next summer in Atlanta.

*An earlier version of this article quoted from a press release that misattributed Safdie's nomination letter to Mike Davis, former president of the Boston Society of Architects. The nomination letter was written by Emily Grandstaff-Rice, current president of the BSA.

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The work of Ehrlich Architects includes residential, commercial, institutional, and educational projects. The firm is renowned for melding classic California Modernist style with multicultural and vernacular design elements and for using a rich palette of materials and textures.

Steven Ehrlich, FAIA, founded the firm in 1979 after spending time working with the Peace Corps in Africa. Through these experiences, he gained an appreciation for simple, natural materials and vernacular solutions to energy, sustainability, and building performance challenges. In his practice, Ehrlich had the opportunity to renovate properties designed by well-known California Modernists, such as Richard Neutra.

Today Ehrlich Architects is led by four diverse partners: Steven Ehrlich, FAIA; Takashi Yanai, AIA; Patricia Rhee, AIA; and Mathew Chaney, AIA. They see themselves as architectural anthropologists exploring ancient, developing-world building traditions and featuressuch as Japanese-style courtyards, Middle Eastern lattice screens, and vernacular mud constructionand implementing them in contemporary buildings.

Partners (LR): Mathew Chaney, AIA; Takashi Yanai, AIA; Steven Ehrlich, FAIA; and Patricia Rhee, AIA. Photo credit: Miranda Brackett.

The marriage of the particular with the universal is one of the great virtues of the firms design approach, where connections between culture, climate, people, and place are woven together in a distinct humanistic architecture shaped by circumstance, wrote Steve Dumez, FAIA in a letter of recommendation.

The Federal National Council Parliament Building Complex in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is a symbol for a burgeoning democracy in the Middle East. Photo credit: bioLINIA.

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A five-year report on CIA torture released by the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday revealed that two psychologists signed a contract worth $180 million with the Bush administration to come up with torture tactics.

However, the psychologists were only paid $81 million after their contract was canceled by the Obama administration in 2009.

RT.com notes that the 525-page CIA torture report says the psychologists were supposed "to develop, operate, and assess its interrogation operations" even though "neither psychologist had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialized knowledge of al-Qaida, a background in counterterrorism, or any relevant cultural or linguistic expertise."

The psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Dr. John "Bruce" Jessen, used to run a company called Mitchell, Jessen & Associates in Spokane, Washington, noted NBC News.

However, Mitchell refuted the CIA report.

"I completely understand why the human rights organizations in the United States are upset by the Senate report," Mitchell told the Associated Press. "I would be upset by it too, if it were true."

"What they are asking you to believe is that multiple directors of the CIA and analysts who made their living for years doing this lied to the federal government, or were too stupid to know that the intelligence they were getting wasn't useful," claimed Mitchell.

However, Naomi Klein wrote in The Nation in 2002 that the main purpose of torture was to induce terror in individuals and groups.

The National Journal noted that Sen. Mark Udall (R-Colo.) said today on the Senate floor, "The refusal to provide the full Panetta Review and the refusal to acknowledge facts detailed in both the committee study and the Panetta Review lead to one disturbing finding: Director Brennan and the CIA today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture. In other words: The CIA is lying."

Mitchell signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and wouldn't talk about his specific role, but appeared to offer some excuses to VICE reporter Kaj Larsen for foreign and domestic torture (video below).

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Lithuania's Do Architects have developed a cool modular housing concept, for glass-sided cylindrical dwellings they call "Rolling Homes." To be clear, these things aren't meant to actually roll. They are pretty neat though!

The wood-clad outsized pipe sections are planned for a seaside development in Svencel, Lithuania, to add to a kiteboarding and windsurfing center designed by the firm. Per a project description, the transparent facades were designed to "allow for uninterrupted views of the surrounding canals and ensure a strong connection, both visual and physical, between the occupant and nature," while the canals allow for surf-in, surf-out capabilities.

The inset front entryways give each home a covered porch. The second floors combine living room, dining room, and kitchen functions, while the top floors are partitioned "sleeping lofts." Here's what they look like in miniature:

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Also on the docket is a marina and yacht club, and a number of apartments, plus rows of homes with different design schemes. According to the firm, construction is expected to begin next year.

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Do Architects develop a new rolling home concept [Design Boom]

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