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MIT on the “Future of Suburbia” Architect, May 2016 At trendy urban coffee shops, the kind where Edison bulbs float above the counter and vintage chairs line the concrete floor, the prized artisanal beans are, more likely than not, roasted in some suburban facility before they’re loaded on a truck and driven downtown. The iPhones…

AIA Gold Medal: Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi Architect, May 2016 An outpouring of joy rippled through the design community when the AIA announced last December that Denise Scott Brown, Hon. FAIA, and Robert Venturi, FAIA, would receive the 2016 Gold Medal. Everyone knew that Venturi and Scott Brown—Bob and Denise, to their legions…

Concrete Details: In Defense of Suzane Reatig and Her Modernist Buildings Reatig may be the most polarizing architect in the District. Washington City Paper, May 13, 2016 Soon, the first tenants will move into the latest fancy-schmancy apartment building to open in Shaw, the Bailey Flats at 926 N St. NW. The building’s elevation on…

Local Filmmaker Found Reston Has Something in Common With the West Bank Rebekah Wingert-Jabi’s new documentary will show at the Environmental Film Festival Thursday. Washingtonian, March 21, 2016 Rebekah Wingert-Jabi’s last documentary was about a small neighborhood in East Jerusalem where Jewish settlers began forcibly evicting Palestinian residents several years ago, sparking protests that were joined—surprisingly—by…

Why Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Revival Matters The British architect who collaborated with Wren and designed some of London’s grandest churches finally gets his due. Architect, March 2016 Artistic reputations often rise, fall, and shift over time. Shakespeare, for instance, was once regarded as an uneducated bumpkin (a “poet of nature,” as Samuel Johnson wrote). Contemporaries of…