Name: Ted Szostkowski AIA
Job title and company: Principal, Director of Higher Education Studio, SMMA/Symmes Maini & McKee Associates
Degree(s): Bachelor of Arts in English...
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Profile: Ted Szostkowski AIA
The Architects’ Building—Arriving and departingLike a robust hermit crab, the BSA is abandoning its shell and, with it, another era in its evolution.
The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) had emphatically overgrown the rented upper...
Profile: Betsy Pettit FAIAName: Betsy Pettit FAIA
Job title and company: President, Building Science Corporation
Degree(s): Bachelor of Environmental Design (Miami University in Ohio), MArch (North Carolina...
Fran Boucher LEED AP: Efficiency in actionFran Boucher LEED AP doesn’t waste words. “When you were a kid,” I asked him, “did you dream you’d grow up to go into energy efficiency?” The energy-efficiency...
Student design at BSA SpaceBoston’s architecture students showed off great work at the BSA Membership Enrichment Committee’s...
Profile: Leslie Saul AIA, IIDA, LEED APName: Leslie Saul AIA, IIDA, LEED AP
Job title and company: President, Leslie Saul & Associates
Degree(s): Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture, Rhode Island School...
Tour de forceIn 1911, a young architect returned from his travels with a head dizzy with ideas and notebooks brimming with sketches. “I saw the grand and eternal monuments, glories of the human spirit,...
Profile: Diane Georgopulos FAIAName: Diane Georgopulos FAIA
Job title and company: Architect for MassHousing
Degree(s): MArch from MIT ...
BSA Space: Take a look The Boston Society of Architects is moving to a new, public-centered space in Boston’s Atlantic Wharf building in late 2011. Designed by Howeler + Yoon Architects and constructed by Commodore, BSA...
The BSA welcomes Renée Loth as the new editor of ArchitectureBostonRenée Loth, a columnist for the Boston Globe and the newspaper’s former editorial page editor, will join the BSA staff in January as the new editor of...
Mapping the militaryFor the last two-and-a-half centuries, the U.S. military has significantly shaped urban development in North America and beyond. And even though it is currently the world’s largest building...
Bridging the Detroit divideHow people feel about Detroit seems to depend largely on where they are standing. Or so says Jana Cephas, who lived in that city for 12 years before moving to Boston to pursue a PhD at Harvard...
Profile: Margaret Minor Wood AIAName: Margaret Minor Wood AIA
Job title and company: Project director, Pinck & Co. (owner’s project managers)
Degree(s): MArch, Harvard Graduate School of Design;...
Scrapping together a much-needed primerArchitectural reuse certainly seems to capture the public’s imagination. When Public Architecture led the design team to build “ScrapHouse” in front of San Francisco’s...
Treat heat like a butterfly, take the sting out of energy useJust as air-conditioning and heating systems help maintain comfortable temperatures in buildings despite temperature swings outside, some living organisms can change their form to keep their...
Finding inspiration in the trenchesArchitects have embraced experimental fabrication and construction techniques, such as using computer numerically controlled machines, to dramatically expand the creative expression and functional...
Designers as captains of industryThermoforming is a widespread manufacturing process that produces complex designs by heating, molding and trimming sheet plastics. A $10 billion industry in the United States alone, its products...
A SEED for changeBryan Bell, Design Corps founder and a 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize winner, is banking on the fact that many of us are hungry for opportunities these days. When...
Chris Karlson, 2011 Rotch ScholarAside from a whirlwind tour of Europe in high school, Chris Karlson Assoc. AIA has not had the opportunity to travel abroad. Soon, though, he will embark on a four-month-long research trip as the...
Eric Höweler AIA presents Atlantic WharfEric Höweler AIA, Höweler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio, discusses plans for the new BSA headquarters. Hosted by Brian Healy AIA.
This Conversations on Architecture event...
Welcome, Margaret!Margaret Wigglesworth starts Tuesday, April 5, as executive director of the Boston Society of Architects.
Wigglesworth, an experienced association leader, comes to the BSA with a...
Profile: Tom KarlhuberName: Tom Karlhuber
Job title and company: Architect at Machado Silvetti Associates (MSA)
Degree(s): BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and a MArch from Harvard GSD...
Boston’s “most beautiful building” shatters library stereotypesDesigned by William Rawn Associates, Architects, with Ann Beha Architects, the new 2010 Harleston Parker Medal-winning Cambridge Public Library represents everything a library should be: not a...
The accidental architect“The narrative of my own existence I know very well—the facts are a bit muddy,” deadpans Joel Lamere, when having to think twice about the year (it was 2006) that he graduated...
Because you can’t eat architectureClover Harvard Square is a new fast-food restaurant.
There’s more to the story than this. But the space, which opened in late 2010, works because Jinhee Park AIA and John Hong of...
Five questions for David Lee FAIAOn October 7, at its national conference in Boston, the National Organization of Minority Architects honors Stull and Lee...
Audrey O’Hagan AIA, BSA president, on our time of challenge and of opportunity“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin
The BSA community can count...
Curtain call: The new technology on display at the CPL is sure to inspire encore building performancesThe Cambridge Public Library (CPL) won over the 2010 Harleston Parker Medal jury for a host of reasons. But of particular interest to the local building community is that the library is the first...
Constructing The Big HammockImagine napping in a big hammock on the Greenway during your lunch hour. Designed and led by Hansy Better Barraza AIA, a team has...
