SOM’s new Washington D.C. office prioritizes people and lowers carbon footprint
Since the pandemic, collaborative momentum has shifted back to the physical workplace, but our work-from-home experience has left an indelible mark. Zoom meetings, digital collaboration tools, and...
View ArticleAdvocating for code change to increase access to modular/emergency housing
In 2021, the Census Bureau estimated that an estimated 3.7 million Americans experienced housing insecurity, and an additional 14 percent of respondents, or 7.7 million Americans, are behind on their...
View ArticleThree responses to NCARB’s licensure op-ed challenge ideas related to...
On November 30, 2023, AN published an op-ed by NCARB president Jon Baker about his personal experience and NCARB’s statement endorsing multiple pathways to licensure. AN received the following...
View ArticleAt COP28 conversations on the phasing out of oil felt paradoxical amidst the...
It’s a lengthy journey from Dubai’s original city center to the Expo City Dubai grounds, which hosted the UN Climate Change Conference known as COP28. One can either hire a The post At COP28...
View ArticleLots Will Tear Us Apart is a call for reclaiming type as an architectural...
We live in San Francisco, a city once known for its counterculture, labor unions, hippie communes, and offering of sanctuary to those that felt like outcasts. But decades of cultural The post Lots Will...
View ArticleRenovated homes in Levittown evidence our algorithmic real estate reality
Facades, cluttered. Materials, uncomplimentary. Bathroom tiles glisten at the base of a facade, and glass railings on Juliet balconies cast distorted reflections of plastic triangular profiles. In...
View ArticleIconic New York print shop Casa Magazines is bought by Iconic Magazines
If you’ve ever walked through Soho you know the branding of Iconic Magazines’s corner shops. While small by national standards, the downtown chain of corner stores have a telltale black-and-white The...
View ArticleNew York’s FLACO Act is a start, but bird safety legislation could go further
The untimely death of New York City’s beloved Flaco the owl has prompted renewed calls to make New York safer for birds, and rightfully so. As an architect, I’ve seen the The post New York’s FLACO Act...
View ArticleACSA Fellows to Advance Equity in Architecture confront the “dangerous...
Almost four years have passed since the public lynching of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Today, after myriad calls for architecture as a discipline to reckon The post ACSA Fellows...
View ArticleWhat can architects learn from skateboarding? Both create communities by...
As a community-driven architect, I have always sought to create spaces that change people first, and this eventually changes whole cities. My journey to the field of architecture wasn’t typical. The...
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