Tag: housing
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Reimagining Suburbia
What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits? The American Scholar, Autumn 2015 Renzo Piano may be the most urban, and urbane, of great architects working today. He made his name in Paris in the 1970s, when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Center, a machine of a museum bristling…
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Young-Old: Deane Simpson Q&A
Simpson discusses his new book on the evolution and sociology of retirement communities. Architect, September 2015 In his new book, Deane Simpson, an architect who teaches at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, chronicles the rise of communities built for older people—not the infirm elderly, but the active or “young-old.” Demographic and…
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RA Design Awards
Residential Architect, May 2015 I wrote about four projects that won 2015 Residential Architect Design Awards, including Johnsen Schmaling Architects’ Pleated House (shown). Photograph by John J. Macaulay
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A Housing Breakthrough
Together, a design studio and community-development corporation are transforming housing in the Rio Grande Valley. CityLab, Oct. 1, 2014 Brownsville, Texas, sits high in the rankings where cities want to come in low. It’s the poorest city in America, with 36 percent of its residents living in poverty. (By contrast, the poverty level in the…
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RIBA Urges Larger Homes
As U.S. housing starts trending tiny, architects across the pond are looking to upsize British housing. Architect, Aug. 15, 2013 While American homes metastasized during the late 20th century, Britain’s shrunk, and the country now has the smallest homes in Europe. “Battery hen Britain,” the Daily Mail tabloid has declared. The average size of all…
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