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8TH ANNUAL R+D AWARDS<br />
Intro by Wanda Lau<br />
Text by Gideon Fink Shapiro<br />
WE LIVE IN AN ERA of making. If the proliferation of digital fabrication<br />
labs and 3D-printed goods hasn’t made it obvious, then the following nine<br />
winning projects in this year’s R+D Awards will show how craftsmanship<br />
is evolving and thriving in the computer age.<br />
The entrants’ desire to innovate and captivate an often stoic design<br />
community was not lost on jurors Gerardo Salinas, AIA, Mimi Love, and<br />
Bill Kreysler (see their bios on page 96), who culled the winners from more<br />
than 100 submissions. But exploiting today’s increasingly advanced and<br />
accessible technologies can only go so far without a greater purpose.<br />
The six awards, two citations, and one honorable mention stood<br />
out for their potential to inject architecture with intelligence, upgrade<br />
longstanding manufacturing and construction methods, and overhaul<br />
entire streetscapes and cities. “They weren’t only about making things,”<br />
Love says of the winning projects. “They were also about solving humanscale<br />
problems.”<br />
See project credits on page 104<br />
ARCHITECT JULY <strong>2014</strong> WWW.ARCHITECTMAGAZINE.COM
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