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Cornell is building one of the greenest high-rises in the world. The Atlantic, January/February 2016 In the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge, on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, three buildings now under construction will together form the core of a new technology campus for Cornell University. The tallest of them, a student and faculty residence,…

Grayed Expectations: What’s With All the Gray Houses? Washington City Paper, Dec. 24, 2015 If you live in a part of D.C. where houses are bought and sold like daytrader shares—or if you just have a bad habit of surfing Zillow at work—there’s one aesthetic question that’s probably crossed your mind in recent months. What’s…

Inside Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre The artist reveals how his Sackler exhibit pays dark homage to Whistler’s Peacock Room Architect, December 2015 In his paintings, the artist Darren Waterston often returns to the complex relationship between beauty and decay—the moment when a flower fades or a tantalizing piece of fruit starts to go rotten. He…

Brie Husted, 1973-2015 Washington City Paper, Nov. 25, 2015 Bridget “Brie” Husted, an architect who lived in Petworth and designed popular D.C. restaurants like El Centro D.F., Domku, Masa 14, and Southern Efficiency, as well as numerous private residences, died on Nov. 1. She was 41 years old. Her uncle, Steve Cochran, remembers her as whip-smart,…

Q&A: Art Historian Paul Jaskot on the Construction of Holocaust Concentration Camps Jaskot recently spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., about his research on the planning and building activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Architect, Nov. 17, 2015 On Nov. 4, art historian Paul Jaskot delivered the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture at the…