In conjunction with the BSA Space exhibit IN FORM, architects William Rawn FAIA, Alex Anmahian AIA and Tim Love AIA discuss the state...
Ideas
Architects at Atlantic Wharf
The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) has moved into a brand-new space in Atlantic Wharf. It’s far from the first time that architects have inhabited this site. From the 1980s...
Documenting Boston murals: What they say and how they say it
Gary Rickson’s iconic mural Africa Is the Beginning on the YMCA building on Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Roxbury (where I grew up) has had a long-lasting impression on me....
Jeremiah Eck FAIA: Siting your home naturally
Jeremiah Eck FAIA presents a sustainable approach to housing design that benefits both the owner and the environment.
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The resourceful city, part 4: Reprogramming possibilities
“What if…?” is the moment of departure from the present to a possible future.
Every city has a similar stock of buildings, spaces and physical infrastructure. As they age...
Urban state—suburban state
Over the last 15 years, the various states within the Boston-Washington, DC, megalopolis (BosWash) have dramatically improved their urban infrastructure and inner-city development patterns. States...
The resourceful city, part 3: Reprogramming infrastructure
Potential for reuse is a hard thing to quantify. The Dutch Pavilion of last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale exhibited a vast fictional...
The resourceful city, part 2: Reprogramming space
A piece of chalk in a child’s hands is a powerful tool. With it, that child has the power to transform a city’s sidewalks, parking lots and alleys into platforms of possibilities....
Say goodbye to the brick schoolhouse
Think back to your kindergarten classroom. If you can stretch your memory that far, what, if anything, do you recall? Do any significant details stick out? If you’re like most people, you...
The resourceful city, part 1: Reprogramming buildings
Referring to someone as resourceful is high praise. The word very succinctly creates a narrative of character for the individual, communicating agility, ingenuity and ability. Resourceful is not a...
Common Boston: Peeling back the layers of urban life
We each build our own little city to live in out of the bricks and mortar of our daily routines. They tend to reduce the infinite possibilities of urban life to a familiar circle of people and...
BSA Lecture Series: The Innovation District
Co-sponsored by Common Boston in partnership with the Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance, this panel discussion explores opportunities for growth, creativity and work within the Innovation...
Beyond the branding: Designing a 21st-century Innovation District
“Innovation district” is an oxymoron. Today many innovators could be anywhere as long as they have a laptop and a place to get a good cup of coffee. But creativity does have a spatial...
Matthew Bronski: Design and construction durability
2009 National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation winner, Matthew Bronski, followed the footsteps of Roman architect/engineer/planner/master builder Marcus...
Kissing the nuclear family goodbye
Not quite a lifetime ago (in the 1950s), men wore hats, ladies wore girdles and schoolkids were periodically commanded to crouch under their desks, in the hope that those submissive postures would...
The key to sustainable farming: Cities
When people talk about being conscious of where their food comes from, they most likely are thinking of farms, and, for some, the zeal for local food leads to dreams of urban agriculture. But...
Landscape urbanism: The challenge of implementation
Urban vs. rural, architecture vs. landscape, man vs. nature—these design dichotomies seem to have served professionals well. They are not only useful intellectual constructs dating back to...
Jane Thompson AICP: New research on Design Research
A retrospective of the life of the Design Research stores in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco (1955-1978), this presentation by 2010 National Design Award winner Jane Thompson encompasses the...
Jean Carroon FAIA, LEED AP: Sustainable preservation
Buildings account for nearly 40% of all U.S. energy use and carbon emissions. With one of the country's leading preservation architects as your guide, explore the power of adaptive reuse to reduce...
Aseem Inam: Designing urban transformation
Urbanists draw a great deal of identity from their creative authorship, but this sense isolates them from the critical decisions that actually shape their projects. To address them, Inam,...
Eric Höweler AIA presents Atlantic Wharf
Eric Höweler AIA, Höweler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio, discusses plans for the new BSA headquarters. Hosted by Brian Healy AIA.
This Conversations on Architecture event...
Architecture and the future of museums
Societal and professional changes are occurring so rapidly these days, it’s a challenge to keep up with the plethora of blogs, magazines and other media regularly bombarding architects with...
Jean Carroon FAIA, LEED AP guides a tour through Trinity Church
Buildings account for nearly 40% of all U.S. energy use and carbon emissions. With one of the country’s leading preservation architects as your guide, explore the power of adaptive reuse to...
Architecture in the fourth dimension
An international conference embedded in Build Boston, November 15–17, 2011
Shopping centers and office buildings exhibit the characteristics...
Make no little plans
Director Judith Paine McBrien moderates a discussion among architects and planners following the screening of her film Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City. Before urban...
Going Gaga: Fashion and architecture
At Amsterdam’s 2010 International Fashion Week, fashion designer Iris van Herpen debuted a...
Thoughts on tiny houses
It’s impossible to escape the fact that tiny houses are cute. Little roofs, little windows—even the two-word term is diminutive. “Tiny houses” instantly brings to mind the...
Cathedral
I was young, the first time.
The windows were dark, and high,
stained sapphire and vermillion.
I was in the basement of my self, at the same time I
was in the crossbeams...
Video: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Three Harleston Parker Medal winners talk about the essence of beauty and how it is evoked by design and measured by its beholders. For more information, see our full schedule of...
Designed for action
With climate change, the recent earthquake in Haiti, the Rhode Island floods and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) undertaking the remapping of flood zones, preparing for disasters is...
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