EP 2: Cabrini-Green Dreams and Nightmares Depending on who’s telling the tale, the Cabrini-Green housing projects on Chicago’s Near-North Side are either patient-zero for urban dysfunction and decay, or a humble high-rise utopia, Corbusier’s Radiant City with soul. But at the end of the day it was home to 15,000 people. Cabrini-Green was mostly demolished by… Continue reading A Lot You Got to Holler EP 2: Cabrini-Green Dreams and Nightmares
Month: January 2016
Integrated Energy Systems: This Building and Car Create a Symbiotic Relationship to Leave the Electric Grid Behind
Line Shape Space Ι Jan. 21, 2016 They’re the twin pillars of the American dream and the current climate predicament: the single family detached house and the automobile—the convenience, freedom, and independence enabled by inefficient and finite fossil fuels. As such, much of the urban-planning and architecture industries are focused on ways to radically subvert this inherited infrastructural… Continue reading Integrated Energy Systems: This Building and Car Create a Symbiotic Relationship to Leave the Electric Grid Behind
Is This the Suburban House 2.0?
CityLab Ι Jan. 19, 2016 In the rarefied air of architecture biennials, like the one that just wrapped up in Chicago, suburban architecture is less than an oxymoron—it basically doesn’t exist. When talented building designers gather, they don’t spend much time thinking about the predominant way Western nations house their citizenry. It’s easy to blame suburbanites’ conservative… Continue reading Is This the Suburban House 2.0?
Alejandro Aravena Awarded Pritzker Prize
Jan. 15, 2016 Ι Metropolis With this year’s Pritzker Prize awarded to Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, 2016 will be remembered as the year architecture’s most eminent institutions rallied around a vision of architecture as a social, ameliorative practice. Aravena, 48, has centered his practice around a string of clever social-housing projects set in developing-world nations. He’s bringing that expertise to the 2016… Continue reading Alejandro Aravena Awarded Pritzker Prize
How a Defensive Moat Became a Top Tourist Attraction
CityLab Ι Jan. 5, 2016 For 100 years, the moat surrounding Fort bij Vechten in the Dutch province of Utrecht was used to deter and repel attackers. Today it draws people to a cultural space that celebrates wild feats of landscape engineering; recasts the role of water with technocratic precision; and reuses military infrastructure as a… Continue reading How a Defensive Moat Became a Top Tourist Attraction