Listen and Unlearn

May 2023 Ι Landscape Architecture Magazine The trading post in Round Rock, Arizona, near the dead-center of the Navajo Nation Reservation, had been many things over many years. Over its 120-year history, the trading post offered groceries and prepared food, and served as Round Rock’s post office. It sold traditional Navajo crafts, gasoline, and meat… Continue reading Listen and Unlearn

Public access to Edgar Miller’s Kogen-Miller Studios is on pause as dueling lawsuits play out

April 7, 2023 Ι Architect’s Newspaper  Edgar Miller’s Kogen-Miller Studios is one of Chicago’s most idiosyncratic and astonishing architectural sites. Lately, though, it has been ensnared in a disagreement that has shut down public access and programming, as one set of owners of the condo complex in the Near North Side Old Town neighborhood are… Continue reading Public access to Edgar Miller’s Kogen-Miller Studios is on pause as dueling lawsuits play out

Taking Back the Table

July 2021 Ι Landscape Architecture Magazine “Agriculture represents the largest anthropogenic land use in the world” says Forbes Lipschitz, and thus a critical venue for landscape design. Yet agriculture remains critically under-researched in landscape architecture. Last fall, instead of directly tackling agriculture systems with design prescriptions, Lipschitz, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at The Ohio… Continue reading Taking Back the Table

The Bauhaus in the Age of Frictionless Design

The Atlantic’s CityLab Ι March 14, 2019  The Institute of Design at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) may be the most direct offspring of the Bauhaus, which was the most influential design school in the world. Founded by former Bauhaus faculty member László Moholy-Nagy in 1937, and later absorbed into IIT (whose architecture school was… Continue reading The Bauhaus in the Age of Frictionless Design

Inventive Design Turns a Gantry Into a Low-Cost “Vertical Village” for Creatives

Autodesk’s Redshift Ι Oct. 18. 2018 In East London, The Trampery on the Gantry is doubling down on the “creative” aspect of creative reuse. Part of the massive broadcast center used during the 2012 Olympic Games, the former HVAC gantry structure has been retrofitted by architecture firm Hawkins\Brown as an arts and media innovation hub. The… Continue reading Inventive Design Turns a Gantry Into a Low-Cost “Vertical Village” for Creatives