Tag: architecture
A dismantled post office destroys more than mail service
Patty Heyda, Washington University in St Louis
The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of collapse and privatization. This comes after years of federal political...
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....
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
