Morale Will Improve
As the profession faces a coming talent shortage, some architecture firms are attracting new employees with happy hours and Flamenco. Can a friendlier culture help the bottom line?
Architect, January 2012
The 50-Year-Old Intern
With recent graduates pursuing other fields as the economy falters, or deciding not to get licensed, will there be a lost generation of architects? And should we care?
Architect, October 2011
Natural Wonder
Massachusetts-based design firm Nervous System combines algorithms and aesthetics for a new line of custom light fixtures.
Architectural Lighting, September 2011
Lessons from Haiti
Architect Stacey McMahan talks about the reality of rebuilding Haiti and the truth of outside architects attempting to affect change in a culture that is not their own.
Residential Architect, February, 2011
The Pit That Swallowed a City
When a town in Sweden began crumbling into a giant crater, the local authorities took action—by convening a global design summit.
Architect, October, 2010
Facing Up to the Numbers
For too long, architecture schools shied away from teaching business basics. That’s changing—fast.
Architect, September, 2010
The Rise and Fall (and Rebirth) of CSD
How could one of Baltimore’s oldest and largest architecture firms suddenly collapse? (This article was honored as a finalist for a 2011 Neal Award)
Architect, June 2010.
Global Hospitals
With domestic projects in the U.S. on the wane, international healthcare represents a rare bright spot for U.S. architecture firms. See the latest designs from the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Architect, February, 2010.
Back to the Future
A school dedicated to design-based learning opens in the very building where GM’s legendary Harley Earl became the father of the modern car.
Metropolis magazine, January 2010.
Shaky Foundation
Taming the economic, environmental, and geopolitical cost of energy has emerged as a national imperative. So why are research dollars for building performance in the U.S. so scarce?
Architect, October, 2009.
Building for the Better
Farewell, starchitecture. The community-centered design movement is taking architects, planners, and designers out of the studio and into the real world.
Urbanite magazine, October, 2009.
Adaptive Light
In his more than 15 years in the commercial lighting industry, Roger Buelow had never heard of the “Spiderman test.” But then, he had never put lights onto a naval destroyer.
Architectural Lighting, June, 2009.
When Crises Collide
By some accounts, the crashing economy is taking health care with it—and vice versa. Many experts say this is an opportune moment for entrepreneurial troubleshooting. Hear what Donna Shalala, Uwe Reinhardt, and others have to say.
One magazine, Summer, 2009.
Survival.org
You know things have really gone askew when an architect sets up shop in a lemonade stand.
Architect, April, 2009.
American Girl
Porochista Khakpour’s first novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, earned instant critical acclaim and made Khakpour a rising star in the literary world. But it’s not her budding fame that is drawing the attention of the Lewisburg, PA locals on this summer day.
Johns Hopkins Magazine, November, 2008.
Old Age, New Models
If there’s anything that baby boomers don’t want, it’s to wither away in a conventional nursing home. Among the growing silver demographic, options like urban living, spa-style retirement campuses, and home-based models of care are catching on.
Architect, September 2008
The New York Times Magazine
Three cutting-edge ideas impacting the green movement.
The New York Times Magazine, April, 2008.
Eco Anxiety: Ecological degradation is not only affecting our external landscape; it’s also influencing our psychic one.
A New Leaf: The first thing most visitors notice about the LEAFHouse is the interior design: the wall of windows and the spine of skylights; the kitchen with concrete and reclaimed-wood counters that follow the natural contours of the tree; the glowing waterfall encased in the living-room wall.
Vegas’s New Game: A few years ago, Paul Gerner began to gather a group of architects in Las Vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and markedly enhanced student learning. The resounding response was disbelief. “I think half of them fell off their chairs,” Gerner says.