Inspiration

Whereas an earlier generation of sustainable architecture advocated sensitizing entire buildings to natural phenomena like solar exposure and prevailing wind patterns, more recently the movement has focused on the details. Environmental Product Declarations, Health Product Declarations and Declare labeling initiatives, in particular, ensure that a building’s many pieces embody the ethics of the whole puzzle.…

These modern structures recall ancient tools for promoting civic dialogue and community engagement.

“Right now, the dominant geographies are geographies of extraction; they’re geographies of power,” s ays Saskia Sassen in an interview with Ibai Rigby of urbanNext.

Sometimes it takes another architect to know exactly what other architects would appreciate in their own homes.

In every historical period and architectural style, staircases have been the aesthetic and social he art of a building interior. From the medieval priest relaying a heavenly message from atop a spiraling pulpit to Miamians descending Morris Lapidus’s “staircase to nowhere” to command the attention of partygoers, steps have made the scene. In the 21st century,…

In answering a crisis that is deeply political and systemically rooted, participatory, bottom-up and considerate solutions are absolutely crucial.

Scott Brown has long been at the forefront of feminism. Now, people are beginning to listen up.

The proposals showcase alternate realities in which mankind’s major social and environmental issues shape the architectural landscape.

These structures made of wooden scaffolding suggest a new form of architecture that embodies the ver y act of construction.