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Common Edge
Ugly Buildings Are Not Simply a Matter of Aesthetics Bad architecture must come from some underlying ethos.
a week ago
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Consider the 15 mph City It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
3 weeks ago
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Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric...
2 weeks ago
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Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture? There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
5 days ago
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Condocide: Death of a Building Type The building collapse in Miami may not have been an aberration. The condition of aging condos...
3 weeks ago
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To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
2 weeks ago
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Buildings, Communities, Cities: Things Fall Apart If the detached house is “The American Dream,” do we need a new dream?
3 weeks ago
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Away From Old Architecture: What Corbu Really Meant Rethinking the meaning of Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking manifesto.
a month ago
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Let’s Stop Using the Terms ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ By now, the terms are arbitrary and confusing.
a month ago
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Everything Is (Not) Architecture: Environmental Design and Architecture’s Slippery Slope Does it exist, distinct from buildings and bodies?
a month ago
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Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
a month ago
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The Washington, D.C., Drawings of Dhiru Thadani A longtime resident captures the capital’s planning, architectural, and social history with ink,...
2 months ago
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What Would Jane Jacobs Do? Toward a New Model for Houses of Worship Cities need to prepare for a wave of declining churches.
a month ago
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“Boston Is A Red City” Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and...
a month ago
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Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized commercial strips, the number of potential units expands by orders of magnitude.
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Who Is Using Who? The Architect-Patron Fame Game The co-mingling of famous client and famous designer has a long history.
a month ago
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Does Spirituality Have a Role in Educating Architects? What might appear to some as an “off-limits” realm might actually be at its heart.
a month ago
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Making the Case for Sustainable Housing: It’s Time for a New Argument How to undo the tension between affordability and sustainability.
a month ago
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Braids by Jade: L.A. Street Art Through Two Lenses Artist Lauren Halsey's visual chronicles of her changing neighborhood.
a month ago
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What Would a Code of Ethics Look Like for Architecture Schools? Some simple guidelines would help clarify issues.
6 days ago
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Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council...
a week ago
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Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and...
2 months ago
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Leslie Lokko’s 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: New Stories to Tell Although the event is lacking in actual architecture, it does introduce urgent and important new...
10 hours ago