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The legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, known worldwide for his designs in the new and old capitals of Brazil-including such buildings as the Cathedral of Brasília, Honestino Guimarães National Museum, and Palácio da Alvorada-died at age 104.
  
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AWARDS
The designer of the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas was once better known for his iconoclasm. No less provocative today, the winner of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal has done some of his best work for the federal government.
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AWARDS
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects won the AIA's highest honor for an architecture firm, a prize commending their often spiritual, always textural works, which include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation museum.
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ECONOMY
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its November employment report this morning, reporting that the national economy added 146,000 jobs in the month and the unemployment rate went down to 7.7 percent.
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DESIGN MIAMI
Design Miami's Designer of the Year, Vito Acconci, presented "Here/There, Now/Later," a sound installation in Miami's Buena Vista building.
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AWARDS
Firms have until early February 2013 to submit letters, testimonials, project images and any other materials that prove that they practice diversity.
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INTERIORS
Owners of single-family houses are hiring interior designers at a continually upward rate, according to the third quarter results of the American Society of Interior Designers' (ASID) Interior Design Billings Index.
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EDUCATION
Students at Cooper Union, the tuition-free university for art, architecture, and engineering, have occupied an administration building to protest the university administration's decision to consider charging tuition.
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ARCHITECT is the magazine of the American Institute of Architects |
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Now available: ARCHITECT's newest flipbook edition! See the November 2012 issue as it appeared in print; search the entire issue by keyword; link specific pages to Facebook, Digg, and Delicious; and connect with advertisers. You can even save the issue to your hard drive for when you're not online. It's a 21st-century take on an old-school experience.
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| Nick Koulbanis, AIA, architect with Tsoi/Kobus, talk about the importance of working on research with outside sector experts. |
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| Solar power generation no longer requires a sprawling roof or extensive structural reinforcement, thanks to the growing prevalence of building integrated photovoltaics. This segment features Dri-Design's metal wall panels with Konarka Technologies's organic solar film. |
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