Light and Color: The Spirit-Led Work of James Turrell
Nov 7, 2024 · Last August, I was fortunate to participate in a two-week course on architecture and the human sciences sponsored by the Moving Boundaries Collaborative.Our venues were Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland. Nordic X, as this session was called, was particularly rich, as the theme was “Light in Architecture and the Design of Lighting for Human Wellbeing.”
Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible?
Dec 23, 2024 · Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just take a show of hands. How many people here today are familiar with alternate-side-of-the-street parking?” Civello’s question was met with laughter and a near-unanimous show of hands in ...
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Jan 13, 2025 · When word trickled out that Gehry would take over master planning for the river, it caught some locals by surprise. No one was more startled, and more critical, than this poet, politician, community activist, and citizen planner.
The ‘Social Landscapes’ of Lee Friedlander – Common Edge
Apr 22, 2024 · In the photography world, some of the great creators—Walker Evans, for instance, and Henry Cartier-Bresson—are known for perfect composition.What appears in the picture is exactly what belongs in it; nothing that might detract from the photo’s essence is …
Confronting the Leviathan in Vietnam – Common Edge
Jan 8, 2025 · Call me depressed. Some years ago—never mind how many trips I’ve taken or how old I’ve grown—I found myself, despite a lifelong aversion to setting foot in northern Vietnam, camera in hand, threading the dirt paths, verdant rice paddies, and varied homescapes that define that ancient land.
Letter From Asheville: The Aftermath of Helene – Common Edge
Oct 29, 2024 · I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads turned into creek beds; power lines down everywhere; city water lines destroyed; bridges torn apart.
L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It
4 days ago · The two ends of Los Angeles ’ Cultural Crescent—formed by the majestic Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and their foothills, which ring the northern end of the great L.A. Basin—are gone. For nearly a century they represented two ends of L.A.’s cultural spectrum. This area is a geography of aspiration that begins at …
It’s Hard for Architects to Be Transparent About Fees
Nov 25, 2024 · It is hard for arc hitects to be transparent. As a profession, we’re shrouded in cliches, both internal and external: the Corbu glasses, the black garb, The Fountainhead.As a result, simple honesty about how we work can be complicated.
Notre Dame Cathedral and the Rebirth of Artisanship
Dec 17, 2024 · Check your Instagram f eeds or watch YouTube these days and you will likely see inspirational clips of French people getting emotional about the rebuilding of their cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris. Nothing in recent history has united a nation so quickly and cohesively as this effort. If you’re not French, you may be bored of the …
Space to Dream: Reflections and Projections from a New …
5 days ago · Architecture students don’t often get the chance to step back and consider our place in the trajectory of design, but deep reflection can bridge the ideals of academia with the realities of practice. In October, a Common Edge team led by Steven Bingler, Martin C. Pedersen, and Bobbie Hill came to the University of Virginia for a workshop meant to create space for these valuable reflections.