Michael Murphy on the Architecture of Health - Common Edge
WEBDec 14, 2021 · Michael Murphy on the Architecture of Health. It has been a surprisingly rapid ascent for MASS Design Group. Famously founded in 2008 by Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, a pair of Harvard Graduate School of Design students, the firm made an immediate name for itself with its first project, the Butaro District Hospital in …
How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar …
WEBJun 6, 2022 · How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar Building. Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in deference to its street address—Wrightwood 659. The gallery is …
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem - Common …
WEBAug 27, 2020 · Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem. 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 ...
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WEBRome’s ’Possible City’ and the Gentrification Battle in San Lorenzo. 02.27.2023. By Marina Engel. The center of Rome’s nightlife has become a flashpoint between real estate speculators and community activists. More.
Michelangelo’s Lesson: Specialization in Architecture is Not The …
WEBFeb 21, 2018 · The effortless confluence of words, drawings, music, humans, buildings, carbon lines and sepia ink revealed a reality that we’re losing in the avalanche of technology. As our knowledge is collected, filtered and coordinated in huge new databases, the human impulse is to master the technology, so that it …
Repairing the Urban Fabric Ruined by Highways – Common Edge
WEBFeb 3, 2021 · Repairing the Urban Fabric Ruined by Highways. 02.03.2021. By William Fulton. From the hills behind the City Hall in my adopted hometown of Ventura, California, it’s less than 1,000 yards southward to the Pacific Ocean. This constrained piece of topogra phy creates a small urban gem of a downtown: streetscapes, restaurants, stores, offices ...
Blending the Sacred and the Secular in Providence - Common Edge
WEBNov 29, 2021 · Blending the Sacred and the Secular in Providence. There’s a convention in thinking and writing about “sacred space”—often referred to as a place for religious purposes, rituals, or transcendence—as a thing apart from “secular space,” with clear boundaries between these two realms. This idea of two distinctly separate places ...
What Critics of Contemporary Architecture Are Missing: The Value …
WEBNov 28, 2017 · The reason that highly designed contemporary architecture almost exclusively manifests in iconic structures is that it’s the only way that investing in design and aesthetic quality can turn a profit.”. This is the central assertion of “ The Politics of Architecture Are Not a Matter of Taste, ” published in …
Juhani Pallasmaa: “Architecture is a Verb” - Common Edge
WEBJul 19, 2021 · The architect on designing with empathy, the duties of architecture, and the dangers of a profession too focused on technology and formalism.
How Biometrics Can Help Designers Build Better Places for People
WEBApr 5, 2018 · Here we look at three ways biometrics can improve architectural design. Eye tracking architecture lets us: Forecast the “Approach-Avoidance” Response. Humans evolved emotions for a very good reason: they helped us survive. We’re wired to “approach” or “avoid” elements in our environment instantly—choosing to move towards one ...