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A Conversation With James Wines: "Put Art Where You Least Expect It
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (175+ words) By Duo Dickinson, Martin C. Pedersen On the importance of drawing: "We're all part of the digital world to some extent, but there's now an entire generation of young architects who can't draw. They can't scribble. And without the thinking and…...
Why Should We Care About Good Urbanism?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (85+ words) By John Claflin, Lindsay Sturman The Science of Good Design The science behind how our physical environment makes us feel is fascinating. Decades of research in fields like neuroscience and environmental psychology show that design engenders a response in humans'which,…...
Indigenous Design and the Intelligence of Water
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (350+ words) Water is not a passive element but a living intelligence. Water moves dynamically'swelling with the tides daily, rising with the moon monthly, replenishing the land through seasonal floods, withdrawing in times of drought, and, when displaced, returning to restore lost…...
The Passion to Build: Three Architects, Three First Structures
1+ week, 1+ day ago (860+ words) Humans go to extreme effort to build things. The monumentality of the Pyramids, the complexity of Stonehenge, the glories of Rome'all of these are timeless manifestations of our fundamental need to build beyond shelter and commerce. These possibilities can make…...
With Federal Dollars, Sunnyside Yards Might Just Happen This Time
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (510+ words) The name "Sunnyside" originated around 1710, when French Huguenots purchased the land and named it "Sunnyside Hill." After the consolidation of New York City into the five boroughs in 1898, the area began to be developed. Between 1903 and 1905, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company…...
Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge?
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (323+ words) Among his many talents, Elon Musk has a singular knack for taking things that are cool'fast cars, rockets, (arguably) marijuana'and making them nauseatingly uncool. Equally impressively, he is adept at taking things that are decidedly not cool and pretending they…...
Learning to Reject the Transactional City
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (299+ words) Here's my story: I decided to study city planning at MIT because I liked cities, not because I wanted to fix them, as many of my cohort did. Nor did I have strong opinions about cities or a clear understanding of…...
Trump's Proposed White House Expansion Debases Classical Architecture
4+ week, 2+ day ago (124+ words) By Steven W. Semes The "official" architecture we have seen so far'the ballroom, a proposed triumphal arch, and suggested modifications to the original White House'reveal an adolescent's enthusiasm for the classical that is clearly not backed up by actual knowledge or…...
The Liability Question: When AI Designs Buildings, Who's Responsible?
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (269+ words) By Chad D. Reineke Licensing, contractual agreements, and professional liability insurance all reflect this framework of accountability. When a building is designed and constructed, responsibility for the decisions embedded in it must remain traceable to identifiable professionals expected to exercise informed…...
How Much Information Do Architects Owe the Public?
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (150+ words) When the new White House ballroom images were published recently, I decided to learn about the firms that would take on such a controversial project. My goal was to get away from the histrionic narratives in the media and the…...