Tag: architecture
Making the most of a tree epidemic
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell University and Leslie Lok, Cornell University
A large portion of North America’s 8.7 billion ash trees are now infested by a beetle...
Should architecturally significant low-income housing be preserved?
Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
This past...
If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing...
Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii
Pandemics change everything, including the way we design buildings.
After the 1918 Spanish flu and the scourge of tuberculosis, there was...
Buildings have their own microbiomes – we’re striving to make them...
Kevin Van den Wymelenberg, University of Oregon; Leslie Dietz, University of Oregon, and Mark Fretz, University of Oregon
Architects and building engineers strive to create...
Why so many architects are angered by ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful...
Kai Gutschow, Carnegie Mellon University
Decades of federal architectural policy would be upended if the Trump administration follows through on an executive order that was...
Shelter design can help people recover from homelessness
Jill Pable, Florida State University
Some 544,000 people in the United States have no shelter every night, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and...
I run ‘facial recognition’ on buildings to unlock architectural secrets
Peter Christensen, University of Rochester
About a decade ago, a modest update to Apple’s iPhoto software showed me a new way to study architectural history....
Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky
Sean Weiss, City College of New York
A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming.
This is good news for architects. Indeed,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
