DEPARTMENTS
January 2008
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18 Contributors
20 Notes from Metropolis
Why are sustainable ideas rarely recognized
by mainstream design awards programs?
22 Dialogue
Readers’ letters
27 Observed
28 Ericsson’s shapely cell-phone towers T
30 A new line of kitchenware made from
(plastic) leftovers T
32 Albuquerque adopts a Web tool to show off
its green progress.
34 In Tokyo, a house reaches for sunlight.
38 Catching wind in Russia/Getting business
cards out of the trash T
40 Jeff Speck grills his NEA successor,
Maurice Cox.
42 The politics of designing a better ballot #
44 Modernism and highway safety in Utah T
50 America
by Karrie Jacobs
Philadelphia, a city of tiny row houses, might
be just the place to build a new version of the
American dream: green and affordable. #
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54 Far Corner
by Philip Nobel
SANAA’s New Museum makes compelling use
of an elemental form: the box. #
60 Learning Curve
A graduate program at the School of Visual Arts
trains the next generation of design critics.
62 In Production
Jonathan Olivares’s Smith is a file cabinet,
stool, and side table—all in one.
106 Productsphere
Manufacturers and designers experiment with
virtual retailing, synthetic materials, and other
simulations and imitations of reality. #
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66 Materials
EcoDomo’s new tiles are made in South
America from BMW car-seat scraps, then
hand-stitched by Amish artisans.
108 In Review
by Jayne Merkel
A new exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum
depicts Eero Saarinen as an architect way
ahead of his time.
114 Up & Coming
Upcoming exhibitions and events
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134 Reference
More information on people, places, and
products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
136 Ben Katchor
Pilling and Its Control
