Redshift Ι March 13, 2017 For Victor Body-Lawson of architect-and-planning firm Body Lawson Associates (BLA), designing and building the Hunts Point Peninsula is less like designing a building and more like building a village. “We think of it as building a community,” Body-Lawson says. The new affordable housing development—located in the South Bronx, New York City—seeks to do… Continue reading An Affordable Housing Development Ascends From Ashes to Build Community
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Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself
Redshift Ι Jan. 17, 2017 It’s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: buildings and structures that use generative geometry to assemble and repair themselves, grow, and evolve all on their own. Buildings that grow like trees, assembling their matter through something like genomic instructions encoded in the material itself. To get there, architecture alone… Continue reading Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art Renovation Will Cater to a Wider Public
Architectural Record Ι March 1, 2017 A renovation of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is intended to reintroduce the museum to a wider public, just when the project’s designers, the Los Angeles firm of Johnston Marklee, will be reintroducing themselves as artistic curators of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, set to open a few months after… Continue reading Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art Renovation Will Cater to a Wider Public
Underneath, Overlooked
Landscape Architecture Magazine Ι February 2017 In 2002, the Design Trust for Public Space published Reclaiming the High Line, a critical voice of support that helped jump-start the growing momentum to preserve that rusting hulk of a rail bed in Lower Manhattan. Now a city- and pedestrian-scaled outdoor art walk and landscape, the High Line is likely the most influential… Continue reading Underneath, Overlooked
Redesigning Lathrop
Architect Magazine Ι January 2017 The Julia C. Lathrop Homes, built in 1938, are one of the oldest Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) projects in the city. Inspired equally by Ebeneezer Howard’s English Garden Cities and company towns like Pullman on Chicago’s far South Side, Lathrop was designed by a cadre of architects punching below their weight… Continue reading Redesigning Lathrop
Tall, Green, and Global: 10 of the Most Innovative Architecture Projects of 2016
The year 2016 was a watershed moment for broad-based populist backlashes, from Brexit to Trump, “xenophobia” to “post-truth.” But looking back, this year’s architecture seems more and more like the sober run-up to these volcanic changes. From this perspective, Redshift’s year-end list of the most innovative architecture documents a different ethos. The concerns demonstrated here (housing inequality, the future of… Continue reading Tall, Green, and Global: 10 of the Most Innovative Architecture Projects of 2016
Why This Teaching Hospital Only Has Fake Patients
CityLab Ι Dec. 9, 2016 University hospitals are often premier institutions for medical training. But a new school on the West Side of Chicago is promising advances in health-care education without students ever collecting a vial of blood or scrubbing in for surgery. It’s a community college, and its array of courses are supported by a… Continue reading Why This Teaching Hospital Only Has Fake Patients
Architecture for Autism Could Be a Breakthrough for Kids With ASD
Redshift Ι Dec. 7, 2016 Good architects have always designed with tactile sensations in mind, from the rich wood grain on a bannister, to the thick, shaggy carpet at a daycare center. It’s an effective way to engage all the senses, connecting the eye, hand, and mind in ways that create richer environments. But one architecture… Continue reading Architecture for Autism Could Be a Breakthrough for Kids With ASD
A Lot You Got to Holler EP 10: A Trumpening for Urban Policy
EP 10: A Trumpeing for Urban Policy Now that a native New Yorker real estate agent is our president-elect, cities finally have the pro-urbanism voice in the White House they need! Right? NO EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. How terrible? We ask Chicago urban policy ace Daniel Kay Hertz to explain how far the toilet we’ve flushed. Special… Continue reading A Lot You Got to Holler EP 10: A Trumpening for Urban Policy
Marion Mahony Griffin, Unbound
Architectural Record Ι Oct. 31, 2016 The historical record left by architect Marion Mahony Griffin has been obscured by time, distance, and the prejudices of her age and profession. To begin with, much of her built work was on the other side of the globe, in Australia. She disdained self-promotion and the public spotlight, rather literally—she… Continue reading Marion Mahony Griffin, Unbound