One of America’s most preeminent critics talks about his new role as architectural advisor to the organization charged with building the president’s library.

A Common Edge–led workshop engages architecture students to consider where they want to take the profession. More

2025年1月15日 · This past fall, I led a graduate design studio at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture in which students used AI to develop innovative, repeatable, and affordable housing solutions.. A few things about this studio cohort: None of the students had opted in. They were not part of the competitive lottery system but were, instead, assigned the course by the school.

2024年4月22日 · In the photography world, some of the great creators—Walker Evans, for instance, and Henry Cartier-Bresson—are known for perfect composition.What appears in the picture is exactly what belongs in it; nothing that might detract from …

2023年1月18日 · Covid has been particularly hard on cities: downtown business districts are still struggling due to the shift to remote work; some cities have seen population declines; and crime has spiked virtually everywhere. In addition, the pandemic pushed more people into cars, setting back the safe streets movement. After years of progress, cities like New York City saw big increases in pedestrian deaths.

2025年1月20日 · Beyond the devastation of the thousands of homes in the singular coastal city of Malibu is the palpable fear among residents that the Palisades Fire has also laid waste to the community’s genii locorum, or “local genius”—its evanescent quality of soul.Disdaining the cliché of being a Beverly-Hills-by-the sea hideaway for celebrities and the one-percenters, local denizens and neighbors ...

2025年1月13日 · Michael J. Crosbie is a Connecticut-based architect and writer who teaches at the University of Hartford and is Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor. The author of and contributor to some four-score books, he studied architecture at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

2025年1月21日 · Architecture students don’t often get the chance to step back and consider our place in the trajectory of design, but deep reflection can bridge the ideals of academia with the realities of practice. In October, a Common Edge team led by Steven Bingler, Martin C. Pedersen, and Bobbie Hill came to the University of Virginia for a workshop meant to create space for these valuable reflections.

2024年12月23日 · Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just take a show of hands. How many people here today are familiar with alternate-side-of-the-street parking?” Civello’s question was met with laughter and a near-unanimous show of hands in ...

2025年1月16日 · Los Angeles h as experienced a hellish week-plus of wildfires that have destroyed thousands of buildings and uprooted countless lives. As of this writing, the fires continue to burn, and the death tolls are mounting. If the past is prologue, the brutal tragedies of this moment will be subjected to the wisdom of Rahm Emmanuel, who famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”