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Previous page: Visitors enter the Poetry Foundation from the garden plaza. Above: The building’s theme of transparency extends to the open interconnected interior spaces.
Photography: steve Hall ©Hedrich blessing
Studio o+A’s renovation of Microsoft’s Building 4 included a ‘living wall’ that brings a touch of nature into the stairwell.
Photography: Jasper sanidad // The rebus Project
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or a a few days this July, Twitter was abuzz about a marriage proposal that took place in a cookbook store in san Francisco. “Can’t do this on Amazon,” someone triumphantly tweeted, deriding the online world and its limited reality (while simultaneously employing it to do so). This sentiment is part of a social-media backlash that counts sherry Turkle, mIT professor of the social studies of science and technology, among its supporters; her book, Alone Together, posits that the more connected we are digitally, the more emotionally alienated we can become from each other. she’s joined by science and humanity writer Jonah Lehrer, who, in his August 6, 2011, Wall Street Journal column, disparaged google+, the new challenge to Facebook that “aims to make sharing on the Web more like sharing in real life.” Lehrer states, “For too long, we’ve imagined technology as a potential substitute for our analog life” and asserts that contrary to our late 1990s enthusiasm for technology to deliver us from our physical limits, “faceto-face interaction [has] become even more valuable.” many organizations understand this and—in spite of escalating real estate, offshoring trends, and the inexorable displacement of brick-and-mortar businesses by online
ones—are investing in places where we can come together in person. one such example is Chicago’s Poetry Foundation, which opened its first permanent location this spring. The fact that in this century it’s a physical place at all is a small miracle. Even with the perilous fate of bookstores, the renegade popularity of e-books, and poetry’s lack of commercial appeal, this 100-year-old organization decided to establish a place to better connect with the public and, through readings and events, increase the poetry community. Far from presenting an elitist or academic message or from making an iconographic statement, the building, designed by local architect John ronan, conveys access and encourages participation. This begins with its skin—a black zinc screen—that surrounds the two-story building proper yet reveals what’s within. Fittingly, the plan devotes its ground floor to public functions: a noncirculating library, a multipurpose space for readings, an exhibition gallery, and a 4,000-square-foot garden courtyard that leads from the street to the entrance, tantalizingly beckoning passersby to come in and explore. once in the courtyard, visitors see through a glass wall to the double-height library filled
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011
IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011
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Power Tools
CEU Course
The Inside Picture
Social Network
Retaking Place
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Design Decoded
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Q+A
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - The Inside Picture
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Social Network
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Retaking Place
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011 - Design Decoded
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