Grupo RIOFRIO architects
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This week, I was on a panel about solitary confinement at the "Architecture for Social Justice"national conference. The conference was for Academy of Architecture for Justice, the subgroup of the American Institute of Architects that designs courthouses, jails, prisons, police headquarters, etc. The focus was not on technical design specifications, but on "restorative justice models and their positive outcomes in court, mental health care, social services, law enforcement and corrections practices and the buildings designed to reflect these practices." That's from the introduction by the conference chairs.
On my panel, "Towards Guidelines for Segregated Housing," I was the social activist, describing Missouri administrative segregation, which is not really solitary confinement and which I've blogged about here. An architect and the director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction also spoke. The last panelist, Brian Nelson, spent 12 years in solitary confinement at Tamms Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in Illinois, for refusing to be a "stool pigeon." His description of the space he lived in and the experience of total isolation chilled us all.
The panel convener, Raphael Sperry, wants the American Institute of Architects to say that building solitary confinement units is unethical. And he is not alone. The architects who sat at our lunch table all design structures for corrections, law enforcement and the courts, and they want their product used to enhance restorative justice.
It made me recall my moral theology studies, where I memorized retributive justice (punishment), distributive justice (sharing the benefits and losses), and restorative justice (the harm done is addressed and efforts are made to put things right).
Other conference sessions included "Stakeholder Engagement in the Creation of Humane and Restorative Correctional Spaces," "Safe Public Spaces: Encouraging Positive Social Behaviors Through Design," and "Mental Health Delivery within a Secure Environment." These practical applications of the principles of restorative justice demonstrate the grounding one would hope for from a group of architects -- but it never occurred to me they were doing work like this.
I came home deeply moved by serious commitment of these architects to building a better world. They understand the power of their role, and they stand committed to restorative justice.
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Memorable: The Hotel Hotel lobby, designed by architects March Studio. Photo: Peter Bennetts
As the head of the National Architecture Awards jury Paul Berkemeier spent two "intense" but "fun" weeks travelling across Australia visiting about 60 sites in contention for a gong from the Australian Institute of Architects.
But when he walked into Hotel Hotel's lobby-cum-bar-cum-restaurant, he was bowled over.
"It's really memorable," he said.
"It just has such a strong, quirky sense to it, both the architecture but also the social aspect really works."
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The "exciting and original design" of the hotel's lobby scored its designers, north Melbourne firm March Studio, a national award for interior architecture one of three handed out by the institute.
The Australian Institute of Architects' 2014 National Architecture Awards were announced on Thursday night in Darwin.
Across Australia, 43 awards and commendations were given to 36 projects, but Hotel Hotel was the only ACT winner.
Mr Berkemeier said the "playful" way timber and concrete was assembled in the hotel "sings".
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OSWEGO Architects working with SUNY Oswego on the 2011-13 exterior renewal of century-old Sheldon Hall recently earned a top design award for historic preservation from the American Institute of Architects New York State.
Architects from WASA/Studio A in New York City recently earned the American Institute of Architects New York State Award of Excellence in Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation for work on Sheldon Halls exterior renewal. Now poised for its next century, the colleges Old Main gleams in this April 2013 photo by SUNY Oswego photographer Jim Russell.
WASA/Studio A of New York City working closely with the colleges Facilities Design and Construction office as well as State University Construction Fund representatives won AIA New Yorks Award of Excellence in Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation.
The award was presented in October at the professional organizations annual Design Conference in Saratoga Springs.
The Sheldon Hall exterior renewal project put the colleges Old Main, which opened in 1913, on course for its next 100 years.
The building remained fully occupied as contractors restored the cupola and replaced its four long-missing clocks, updated lighting with a new LED and linear-halide system, rebuilt the parapets, replaced the granite steps and the iconic columns, put down a new copper roof, added fleece-reinforced waterproofing for gutters, replicated hundreds of terra cotta replacement moldings, repointed the brickwork and replaced damaged bricks, installed special-order historic replicas of the windows and much more.
It is wonderful to have Sheldon Hall, which is so intertwined with the colleges identity, finally and fully restored, President Deborah F. Stanley said in the summer 2013 edition of Oswego, the colleges alumni magazine.
The AIAs award letter to WASA/Studio A noted that architects from California, Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C., served on the jury for the 2014 New York Design Awards.
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Nic Clear / Educating Architects International Conference / Day 2
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Chase Donoghue - Architects - Broken Cross Drum Cover
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