Maquettes in Architecture: The Forgotten Joys of Model-Making
Dec 22, 2020 · Duo Dickinson has been an architect for more than 35 years. He is the author of 8 books and writes a regular column as the architectural correspondent for Hearst Publications. He is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Hartford and teaches at the Building Beauty Program in Sorrento, Italy.
In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings - Common Edge
Mar 1, 2022 · Although it was originally published in 2019, this essay by Randy Nishimura, lightly updated, serves as a rebuttal of sorts to Duo Dickinson’s recent Common Edge piece,“ The Architectural Pandemic of the ‘Stick Frame Over Podium’ Building.”Dickinson likens the building type to a plague; Nishimura offers a contrarian’s perspective. A recent spate of …
Hidden Figures: The Historic Contributions of Black Architects
Oct 5, 2020 · Designer Paul Wellington, based in Milwaukee, is the author of Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, a book that documents more than 40 works of architecture around the country by Black architects that have had a direct impact on communities or color.He’s now working on a new book that will focus on Black women architects in a field dominated by white males.
The Legacy of Christopher Alexander: Form Language, Pattern …
Jun 4, 2018 · Nikos A. Salingaros is the author of eight books on architecture and urbanism. His latest book is “Design for a Living Planet.” A long-time collaborator of Christopher Alexander, he is considered an authority on biophilia, complexity, pattern and …
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
Aug 27, 2020 · The most arresting image, among many, in the documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, directed by Alison Ellwood, is a black-and-white photograph of Eric Clapton visiting Los Angeles for the first time on tour with Cream. He sits a few feet from Joni Mitche ll, who is playing guitar, with a visibly stoned David Crosby in the …
How Christopher Alexander Changed Architecture—and Much More
Mar 22, 2022 · Christopher Alexander, perhaps the single most effective polymath architect of his generation, has died at the age of 85. Through teaching, writing, building, inspiring technology, planning, and even delving into theology as well as pedagogy and aesthetic theory, Alexander created, over six decades of relentless creation and research, a legacy whose breadth and complexity are difficult to ...
Juhani Pallasmaa: “Architecture is a Verb” - Common Edge
Jul 19, 2021 · Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin is one of the most-read texts in architecture schools worldwide. A former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and former director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, his design work has received numerous ...
The Restoration Argument: Respecting Viollet-Le-Duc at Notre …
Apr 25, 2019 · Mark Alan Hewitt is an architect, historian and preservationist who lives in Sutton, New Hampshire. He taught for many years in American architecture schools, and also lectured in Art History at Rutgers University. His latest book, Draw In Order To See, was published by ORO Editions in 2020.
Do Buildings Really Shape Human Behavior? – Common Edge
Sep 25, 2020 · Robert Hart recently wrote a compelling response to my 2017 Common Edge article “ We Shape Buildings, But Do Buildings Really Shape Us? ” I attended Robert’s session at the AIA’16 convention in Philadelphia, “Neuroscience, Evolution, Ecology: A New Look at Humanism in Architecture.”
The Mental Disorders that Gave Us Modern Architecture
Aug 22, 2017 · Ann Sussman is an author, architect and researcher, serves as president of the non-profit, the Human Architecture + Planning Institute Inc (theHapi.org). Her latest book, Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment, 2nd ed. (2021), co-authored with Justin B Hollander, features 40 images of eye-tracked architecture.