6 Promising New Apps for Design Professionals
Here are a couple of the apps that industry professionals recommended as "the latest and greatest" digital tools to assist design professionals:Publication Date: Tue, 07/09/2013
View ArticleLessons From a Model Mixed-Income Community
"The model for the Hope VI program was a pioneering housing experiment in Boston called Harbor Point, the nation’s first attempt to transform a large dysfunctional federal public housing project into a...
View ArticleArchitect Julia Morgan Awarded AIA Gold Medal
"The good news is that the AIA has, for the first time ever, awarded its Gold Medal, the profession’s highest honor, to a woman: Julia Morgan (1872-1957)," reports Karrie Jacobs.Publication Date: Thu,...
View Article'Towers Because Gardens'—Reviewing MoMA's Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition
Thomas de Monchaux’s recent article doesn’t spend too much time discussing the ostensible purpose of MoMA’s exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs.Publication Date: Mon, 03/10/2014
View ArticleOn the State of Architecture Criticism
Kriston Capps explains the significance of Inga Saffron’s recent selection as a Pulitzer Prize laureate for criticism, which moves the Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic into select company:...
View ArticleThe Downtown Dystopia and the 'Continued March of Sameness'
Aaron Betsky begins an article titled "Downtown Dystopia" by riffing on the recent Occupy Hong Kong protests: "Separate from the politics of the occurrence, it makes me wonder whether the notion that...
View ArticleAn Evolving Houston Plans for its Future
"At the end of July, Houston, with a population of over 2 million spread haphazardly across some 630 square miles, started work on its very first comprehensive city plan," reports Karrie...
View ArticleArchitecture Billings Index Shows Continued Growth for Design Industry
"September’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) released today by the AIA reports another month of increased design activity," reports Caroline Massie. The September ABI is the fifth consecutive report...
View ArticleSurveying the Results of 150 Years of Persistent Growth in Atlanta
Ahead of the 2015 AIA National Convention, to be held this May in Atlanta, Rebecca Burns introduces Atlanta's current explosive growth and urban renaissance by first noting the metropolitan area's...
View Article6 of the World's Best Public Spaces
"Selected from entries representing urban areas all over the world, six parks were named finalists in the Urban Open Space Award comPublication Date: Thu, 06/04/2015
View ArticleMore Common Ground Sought for the 'Future of Suburbia'
"Whether we are aware of it or not, even the most self-consciously curated 'urban' lives are staged and supplied by the jumbled realm of suburbia," begins an in-depth article by Amada Kolson Hurley...
View ArticleBig Kennedy Center Expansion Includes Pedestrian Bridges to the Potomac
"Steven Holl Architects has won approval for a pedestrian bridge to accompany its expansion to Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts," according to an article by Deane...
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Building Industry Falling Short of the AIA's Carbon Reduction Goals
"According to the 'AIA 2030 Commitment 2015 Progress Report,' [pdf] released today, the design industry is not on pace to meeting the ambitious goal ofPublication Date: Wed, 10/05/2016
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The State of Affordable Housing
Karrie Jacobs details the state of affordable housing in the United States during the "Age of Trump," tracing the origins of the country's policies to the Nixon Administration to current...
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Ten Years of the High Line—Time to Reflect
Karrie Jacobs writes about the tenth anniversary of the High Line in New York City, admitting a rediscovered appreciation for the Publication Date: Tue, 09/24/2019
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