The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild …
WEBJun 21, 2019 · A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive.
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
WEBAug 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 background on the backyard lawn of Cass Elliot’s house.
How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar …
WEBJun 6, 2022 · 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 currently staging a resourceful exhibition on wood-frame construction, the method by which more than 90% of U.S. houses are built.
Architecture Is a Deeply Emotional Experience – Common Edge
WEBJul 12, 2021 · At its core, architecture is a deeply emotional experience. Because architecture is inherently immersive, it’s uniquely capable of inspiring the “vitality affects,” those kinetic aspects of emotion that express themselves as movement in our bodies. We feel architecture, in the sense that we “feel an arch ‘spring’, a path ‘lead ...
Teaching the Subtle and Difficult Art of Adaptive Reuse
WEBJan 21, 2021 · A recent essay on Common Edge has raised the issue of why architects are so afraid of confronting the need for adaptive reuse as a primary design strategy for the current century and beyond. As someone who taught groundbreaking studios on the subject at Columbia and elsewhere (and was discouraged from doing so), I …
The Ethics of Architecture and Other Contradictions
WEBJun 12, 2019 · Sociologist Jonathan Haidt notes that there are six moral foundations in all societies: care of others; fairness with others; loyalty to family, friends, nation; respect for authority; sanctity; love of liberty and freedom. He points out that Western cultures put emphasis on care, fairness, and liberty, while other world cultures also value the ...
The Enduring Importance of William H. Whyte – Common Edge
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · The list of roles William H. Whyte played in his long life is an extensive one: magazine editor, author, urbanist, urban anthropologist, filmmaker, pundit, public intellectual, politician (unelected and behind the scenes), consultant, teacher, mentor (to, seemingly, hundreds), as well as husband and father. “He was the ultimate generalist,” says Richard K. Rein, author of a new biography ...
Architecture, Aesthetic Moralism, and the Crisis of Urban Housing
WEBApr 17, 2018 · Aesthetic moralism is unfortunately trenchant in the urban housing debate, usually on the NIMBY side, which often argues that new housing destroys “neighborhood character.”. However, it is unfortunate that such an empty argument has become more common in left critiques of the urban housing crisis and the YIMBY movement.
Michael Murphy on the Architecture of Health – Common Edge
WEBDec 14, 2021 · 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 Rwanda.Built on a low budget and with local workers, the naturally ventilated clinic created both a new healthcare ...
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 ...
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