Inform

The Inform Awards jury selected 7 projects for honor or merit awards for object design, landscape architecture, and interior design, which will be published in Inform. They selected another 28 projects for recognition and publication on the ReadInform site throughout 2012.

The newly ICC-approved International Green Construction Code (which accepts ASHRAE 189.1 for compliance) is up for adoption in jurisdictions nationwide. Is it onerous or necessary? The debate begins.

Nicholas E. Vlattas, AIA, and Deborah Marquardt conclude that the development of valuable firm members is a balanced responsibility among academia, firms, and the emerging professionals themselves.

Quick-response codes are those quirky little squares you see in magazines and advertisements for you to read with your cell phone (if it can). Will Rourk explains what they are all about.

An orange, intuitive serendipity, and mathematics solved a perplexing shell fabrication problem, explains Duncan Abernathy, AIA.