Tag: Buildings
2 ways cities can beat the heat: Which is best, urban...
Ian Smith, Boston University and Lucy Hutyra, Boston University
When summer turns up the heat, cities can start to...
3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...
James Rose, University of Tennessee
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge.
For centuries, wood, masonry and...
3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...
James Rose, University of Tennessee
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge.
For centuries, wood, masonry and...
Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more...
M. Wesam Al Asali, Princeton University
Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages...
Electric heat pumps use much less energy than furnaces, and can...
Robert Brecha, University of Dayton
To help curb climate change, President Biden has set a goal of lowering U.S....
Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices
Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
In my synthetic chemistry lab,...
Buildings consume lots of energy – here’s how to design whole...
Charles F. Kutscher, University of Colorado Boulder
Although the coronavirus pandemic has dominated recent headlines, climate change hasn’t gone away. Many experts are calling for...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
