Turning Point: The Three Climate-Planning Scenarios Available to …
Nov 27, 2024 · In the months prior to the recent presidential election, the public didn’t hear much from either side about climate change, even as the planet is now on track to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) post-industrial rise in global average surface temperature and 97% of climate scientists are screaming at the top of their lungs that the house is on fire.
Vishaan Chakrabarti: Looking for a Home, Aiming Risky Zingers
Dec 9, 2024 · If being quotable and being civically influential were the same thing, Mark Twain and Bob Dylan would have been presidents. In his new book, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy (Princeton Architectural Press), Vishaan Chakrabarti, the founder of New York’s Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), dares to invoke concepts such as humanism, joy, and urban ...
Architecture With Empathy In An Age of Division and Discord
Dec 10, 2024 · David Briggs is an architect and founder of Loci Architecture. He has completed hundreds of projects in the academic, housing, residential, and commercial sectors. He is co-founder of Gowanus by Design, a non-profit community organization that is exploring the long-term urban planning challenges around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
Light and Color: The Spirit-Led Work of James Turrell
Nov 7, 2024 · Last August, I was fortunate to participate in a two-week course on architecture and the human sciences sponsored by the Moving Boundaries Collaborative.Our venues were Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland. Nordic X, as this session was called, was particularly rich, as the theme was “Light in Architecture and the Design of Lighting for Human Wellbeing.”
It’s Hard for Architects to Be Transparent About Fees
Nov 25, 2024 · It is hard for arc hitects to be transparent. As a profession, we’re shrouded in cliches, both internal and external: the Corbu glasses, the black garb, The Fountainhead.As a result, simple honesty about how we work can be complicated.
Why Gardening Should Be Our Metaphor for Local Development
Dec 4, 2024 · I started a garden back in February, inside my house. I purchased some seed packets, used a little potting soil, and set the small planters by the sunporch windows. I moved them outside in May, and now, as I type this in June, I have loads of healthy peppers and tomatoes soaking up the sun on my back patio.
Wonder and Awe in a James Turrell Skyspace – Common Edge
Nov 13, 2024 · The fall night was crisp and clear. Sunlight was just fading over the Hudson River. I was making my way to the Friends Seminary School on East 16th Street in New York, where I was invited to witness artist James Turrell’s Leading, a “skyspace” that opened last spring at the apex of the newly renovated and expanded school, completed by Perkins Eastman.
The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess
On November 13, the New York City Council will vote on the third and final part of the City of Yes (COY) proposal from Mayor Eric Adams (and Big Real Estate). Called the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO), it has 1,386 pages of zoning changes that make it the most controversial and consequential section for the future shape of our streets, buildings, and neighborhoods.
Design for Global Survival: The 2030 Palette – Common Edge
Nov 11, 2024 · Climate-change impacts ar e rapidly intensifying. Recent events like the catastrophic hurricanes Helene and Milton, wildfires in Australia and the Amazon rainforest, severe flooding in the U.S., Spain, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia, and extreme heat waves across the U.S., Europe, and Africa demonstrate that the need for resilient planning and design solutions has never been more urgent.
Worshiping the Old Isn’t Historic Preservation – Common Edge
Oct 24, 2024 · As is the case in any profess ion, architects have their standard complaints: “The client does not understand me.” “The budget is too small.” “The engineer is unresponsive.” But some of us—those who deal with old buildings and state funding of historic preservation projects—regularly proclaim, “These historic preservation people just don’t get it.”