Research: Toward an ideal

Turning points (Part 1 of 10)

The divide between architecture school and practice is well known.

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Mar 01, 2017

Serendipity: When walls get in the way

Turning points (Part 2 of 10)

By the time I arrived at MIT to study architecture, Building 20 was already a much-eulogized place of legend.

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Mar 01, 2017

Diversity: Open a new window

Turning points (Part 3 of 10)

Think back to a moment in time that changed the way you perceived the world.

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Mar 01, 2017

Transparency: We can move markets

Turning points (Part 4 of 10)

The more you probe the design process, the more you discover that, though architects and designers have access to a lot of information on the building products they select, they generally know little about the constituent chemistry of these materials.

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Mar 01, 2017

Emotion: What the heart sees

Turning points (Part 5 of 10)

As designers, we have all experienced the delicious moment when nothing can be added nor deleted, when the design has reached its final form — the “I’ve got it!” feeling.

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Mar 01, 2017

Resiliency: A plan takes root

Turning points (Part 6 of 10)

Brooklyn Bridge Park has been an experimental, paradigm-shifting project because the vision for the park was audacious at its very roots.

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Mar 01, 2017

Leadership:
Home for good

Turning points (Part 7 of 10)

With systemic change on Somerville’s horizon, can the city preserve its soul?

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Mar 01, 2017

Equity: A measure of impact

Turning points (Part 8 of 10)

The Rural Studio was born out of the design/build movement that was part of an architectural counterculture in the 1970s.

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Mar 01, 2017

Wellness:
Time to heal

Turning points (Part 9 of 10)

Remember the last time you navigated through a hospital for a test?

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Mar 01, 2017

Technology: The road ahead

Turning points (Part 10 of 10)

A new and disruptive technology is close enough to touch.

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Mar 01, 2017

A road to somewhere

In the course of my career, I have been asked many times why I became a transportation planner.

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Mar 01, 2017

Tonics and provocations

Over the past several years, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum curator Cynthia E. Smith canvassed the country, logging more than 50,000 miles in a search for design solutions to society’s most intractable ills.

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Mar 01, 2017

Good-news
nuggets

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Mar 01, 2017