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March | April 2011 High Honors Vol. 37 No. 2 March April Press Release |
Features
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20 AIA MINNESOTA HONOR AWARDS 2010 From California to Minnesota to Georgia, the winners of the most prestigious awards for architecture designed in Minnesota embrace a “less is more” design philosophy.
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U.S. Land Port of Entry page 22 By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA |
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Chaffey College School of Arts page 26 By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA |
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UMD Bagley Nature Area Building page 29 By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA |
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Winona County History Center Addition page 30 By Linda Mack |
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White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church page 33 By Amy Goetzman |
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Dallas Public Library, Lochwood page 34 By Amy Goetzman |
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Columbus State Uptown Campus page 36 By Phillip Glenn Koski, AIA |
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SPECS Optical Façade page 39 By Camille LeFevre |
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Cabrillo College Arts Village page 40 By Camille LeFevre |
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44 BACK TO BASICS By Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA When you turn your passion into a career, as most architects and many other people have done, it’s easy to lose your spark amid the day-to-day pressures and responsibilities of professional life. So how do you reignite your inspiration? Three Minnesota architects have the answer: 1. Leave town for two weeks for someplace beautiful. 2. Gather with others, mostly students, who aspire to the same things you aspire to. 3. Design or build something compelling, not with the aid of a computer but with your own two hands. |
Departments & Directories
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9 Culture Crawl by Christopher Hudson Architecture Minnesota’s Videotect competition hits the play button with a must-see screening event at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. |
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11 Why It Works by Frank Edgerton Martin A serene new regional park for the arts lies near the heart of the Twin Cities metro area. It only seems far away. |
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13 Conundra by Bill Beyer, FAIA Would the same number and types of projects win architecture awards if members of the public juried the awards? |
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17 Studio The greenest feature of Locus Architecture’s Northeast Minneapolis studio? “Moss on the ceiling . . . where the roof leaks.” Touché. |
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19 Wayfarer by Pete Sieger, AIA An American in Paris ventures outside the Centre Ville to photograph one of the most elegant modern structures in the world. |
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64 Place by George Heinrich A small group of motorcyclists on an architecture tour down the Mississippi hits the brakes in Winona for a beautiful Prairie School landmark. |
56 Directory of Landscape Architecture Firms
62 Credits
63 Advertising Index
On the Cover
U.S. Land Port of Entry
Warroad, Minnesota
“The Warroad border station first appears like a mirage, long and low, a far-off reflection rising from the pavement on a hot day,” says photographer Paul Crosby. “When you traverse the long approach, the building invites another kind of reflection, as it gradually reveals its layers of elegant form.”
Mission Statement
Architecture Minnesota, the primary public outreach tool of the American Institute of Architects Minnesota, is published to inform the public about architecture designed by AIA Minnesota members and to communicate the spirit and value of quality architecture to both the public and the membership.