22.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/22/10
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Window washers in Washington, D.C. (credit: lucycc.tumblr.com)
First and foremost, two links on the architectural and building science implications of the earthquake in Haiti: The Infrastructurist on why so many buildings collapsed, when the destructive-but-not-catastrophic 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in CA was the same magnitude. Next, Architecture for Humanity lays out a plan for how to rebuild sensibly and equitably.
California becomes the first state in the Union to include green building principles in its building code as part of an ambitious environmental agenda.
A very cool Dutch artists’ studio that looks like a pile of logs. (Thomas Mayer Archive)
Finally, from the almost-frivolous file: an architect gets a year-long fellowship to study and work in a German castle called “Schloss Solitude” and comes up with…“a self-consuming barbecue pavilion” (BLDG Blog)
