Aesthetics Alone Do Not Give Sacred Space Its Meaning
Oct 9, 2024 · In this light, it becomes clear that supplanting traditional forms of sacred space with architecture focused solely on aesthetics fails to fill the human need that calls for sacred space in the first place. The key to finding a new relevance for sacred space lies in architectural humility. Sacred space should not attempt to supplant ...
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 …
Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City – Common Edge
Aug 27, 2024 · The idea was to provide ample light, air, and greenery for all residents. After World War II, much of the world embraced this idea of a “modern city” as a guide to transforming their urban landscapes. Urban renewal was to provide new housing, commercial spaces, and modern infrastructure—frequently meaning more and more space for cars.
How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar …
Jun 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.
New York City’s Trash Problem Has a Design Solution
Jun 19, 2018 · By Martin C. Pedersen. Like virtually every metropolis in the world, New York has a trash problem. The city produces approximately 24,000 tons of it a day. Much of it is carted to landfills in distant places, where it pollutes the soil and water. Worse still: this grossly inefficient system costs the city more than one billion dollars a year.
How FEMA’s New “Resilience Zone” Program Works – Common Edge
Oct 16, 2023 · Last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unveiled a new program to designate what it calls “ Community Disaster Resilience Zones ” and announced 483 such zones across the U.S. Far from being resilient, these places have a particularly high risk of natural disasters, many of which are the result of global warming. The FEMA designation means increased federal support and ...
Why We’ll Need More Flexible Buildings in the Post-Covid Era
Aug 30, 2020 · The Layouts of Schools, Offices, and Homes Will Change as the Pandemic Continues. School classrooms will need to flex more readily for changing cohorts of students sometimes working in greater isolation and in smaller numbers. Integrated technology will need to be tuned and intensified to allow blended learning so that students attending ...
Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly – Common Edge
Apr 8, 2024 · Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly. 04.08.2024. By Boyce Thompson. A few years ago, architects who staked an early claim on mass timber construction had to convince clients to take a chance on an exciting new approach. They would talk about faster build times and quicker leasing, sidestep the lack of comparable projects, downplay the ...
Robert Venturi and the Difficult Whole – Common Edge
09.26.2018. By Mark Alan Hewitt. Robert Venturi (1925-2018) was the most influential American architect of the last century, though not primarily for his built work, or because of his stature as a designer. He will never stand beside Wright, or Kahn, or even Gehry in that regard. Between 1965 and 1985 he and his collaborator, Denise Scott Brown ...
“Architecture Schools Are Responsible for Educating the Whole …
Sep 3, 2024 · The vast majority of practitioners I’ve known over the years seek well-trained graduates who are ready on Day One to be productive employees. But that’s not all an architectural education needs to deliver. Michael Monti—who for the past 20 years has served as executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), which represents 5,000 architecture faculty ...