The Designing Boston Series provides a forum to discuss current trends and concerns in architecture and urban planning that may shape Boston’s future. Topics include designing for transportation, walkability, and climate change; the impact of a Boston-based Olympics; and meeting housing demands of this growing city.

Designing Boston Forums

Explore previous Designing Boston Forums hosted by the BSA.

BSA, BSLA, and Patronicity Call on Massachusetts Cities to Extend Outdoor Dining Opportunities

The Boston Society of Architecture and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects created a program to match business owners in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston with architects and landscape architects to create simple, scaled, permit-ready outdoor seating plans to be implemented when businesses were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining this spring.

Installation update: The Floating Wetland has Launched

The BSA is proud to share that after years of development, the Floating Wetland has been deployed in the Charles River. The project explores an ecological intervention to reduce harmful algal blooms in the Charles, which threaten the river’s health and limit the feasibility of swimming.

Future-Decker

The Future Decker exhibition is part of an ongoing exploration and documentation of the ways in which existing triple deckers have shaped the City of Boston, while inviting residents to envision the future of this iconic New England vernacular building typology.

Built en masse mostly between the 1880s and 1930s, the triple decker was an affordable entry point for many immigrant families who came to call Boston home.

Explore residents’ perspectives and experiences with triple deckers and possible new ways to re-integrate them into the fabric of the city.

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