Aug. 17, 2016 Ι Line/Shape/Space AllTransit may be the most comprehensive transit database in the nation, but it won’t help you find the fastest route when you’re late for a dinner date. No, it’s much bigger than that. Instead, it peels back the layers of how transit intersects key quality-of-life statistics, using information from 543,000 stops across 800… Continue reading AllTransit Reads Between the (Bus) Lines to Advocate for Urban Life
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Wolf Prix on Robotic Construction and the Safe Side of Adventurous Architecture
Aug. 2, 2016 Ι Line/Shape/Space In response to a conservative and sometimes fragmented building industry, some architects believe that improving and automating the construction process calls for a two-front war: first, using experimental materials and components; and second, assembling them in experimental ways. Extra-innovative examples include self-directed insect-like robots that huddle together to form the shape of a… Continue reading Wolf Prix on Robotic Construction and the Safe Side of Adventurous Architecture
A Lot You Got to Holler EP 7: Cities, Where Data Lurks
EP 7: Cities, Where Data Lurks For A Lot You Got to Holler’s first-ever live podcast, we shined a light on the most hidden and obscured element of urbanism that’s changing how we interact with cities in every way: data. Invisible streams of 1’s and 0’s pour out of our transit systems, buildings, and utility… Continue reading A Lot You Got to Holler EP 7: Cities, Where Data Lurks
Next Progressives: Best Practice Architecture and Design
July 2016 Ι Architect Magazine Just five years old, Seattle-based Best Practice Architecture and Design has amassed a broad portfolio of residential, commercial, office, and restaurant projects. What distinguishes the firm is its ability to deliver an extra level of craft to clients by collaborating with photographers, metal sculptors, and neon artists on the city’s… Continue reading Next Progressives: Best Practice Architecture and Design
Nature Does It Better: Biomimicry in Architecture and Engineering
July 11, 2016 Ι Line Shape Space Biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems; biomimicry in architecture and manufacturing is the practice of designing buildings and products that simulate or co-opt processes that occur in nature. There are ultrastrong synthetic spider silks, adhesives modeled after gecko feet,… Continue reading Nature Does It Better: Biomimicry in Architecture and Engineering
The sharing economy comes to urban public schools
Doggerel Ι July 1, 2016 Uber, Airbnb, WeWork: every day, entrepreneurs find new ways to diffuse the ownership of expensive infrastructure in order to drive down prices. But while today’s sharing economy tends to focus on individual consumers, the concept could find creative new applications in the public sector. For example, urban schools contain many different… Continue reading The sharing economy comes to urban public schools
Next Progressives: Hazelbaker Rush
Architect Magazine Ι June 2016 There may be grander examples of Hazelbaker Rush’s commitment to material craft and modernist refinement, but perhaps the most direct distillation of the Tuscon, Ariz.–based architecture firm’s design process can be found in the bathroom of Mabel Street Residence, a 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival bungalow that co-founders Darci Hazelbaker, Assoc.… Continue reading Next Progressives: Hazelbaker Rush
Class Consciousness: Landscape Students Plunge into Publishing to Define What Matter to Them
Landscape Architecture Magazine Ι June 2016 IN RECENT ISSUES OF STUDENT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE JOURNALS, there are articles about the landscape implications of graffiti, the ghost towns of the industrial Arctic, the consolidation of rural Midwest post offices, transit networks of the nuclear waste storage industry, and (unavoidably) how the Internet affects perceptions of landscape. This wide… Continue reading Class Consciousness: Landscape Students Plunge into Publishing to Define What Matter to Them
A Lot You Got to Holler EP 6: Designing the Machinery of Urbanism with Carol Ross Barney
EP 6: Designing the Machinery of Urbanism with Carol Ross Barney Architecture is concert halls, museums, theaters, and all of our temples of high culture. But it’s also train stations, sewer drains, and the seemingly anonymous infrastructure that makes the city work. Few architects understand how to elevate this everyday machinery of urbanism as well as… Continue reading A Lot You Got to Holler EP 6: Designing the Machinery of Urbanism with Carol Ross Barney
Buildings that Grow, Breathe, and Burn Calories
OZY Ι June 13, 2016 Last fall at an exhibition in Chicago, something was pumping and hissing. Twenty-two tanks, all in a stack, filled with water and framed in wood. Weird art? But clearly it was some kind of wall system. So … weird architecture? And getting closer doesn’t clarify matters. The name of this oddity:… Continue reading Buildings that Grow, Breathe, and Burn Calories