In Praise of Cemeteries – Common Edge
网页2020年4月7日 · Cemeteries have a unique quality as large public places shrouded in privacy. Enter an older cemetery, especially one with majestic monuments dating from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, and you immediately feel a sense of isolation in the wide open. Large memorials might offer a sunny spot to recline for a moment’s respite.
In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings - Common Edge
网页2022年3月1日 · Although it was originally published in 2019, this essay by Randy Nishimura, lightly updated, serves as a rebuttal of sorts to Duo Dickinson’s recent Common Edge piece,“ The Architectural Pandemic of the ‘Stick Frame Over Podium’ Building.”Dickinson likens the building type to a plague; Nishimura offers a contrarian’s perspective. A recent spate of articles bemoaning the ...
Teaching the Subtle and Difficult Art of Adaptive Reuse
网页2021年1月21日 · A recent essay on Common Edge has raised the issue of why architects are so afraid of confronting the need for adaptive reuse as a primary design strategy for the current century and beyond. As someone who taught groundbreaking studios on the subject at Columbia and elsewhere (and was discouraged from doing so), I …
Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly – Common Edge
网页2024年4月8日 · Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly. 04.08.2024. By Boyce Thompson. A few years ago, architects who staked an early claim on mass timber construction had to convince clients to take a chance on an exciting new approach. They would talk about faster build times and quicker leasing, sidestep the lack of comparable projects, downplay the ...
Juhani Pallasmaa: “Architecture is a Verb” - Common Edge
网页2021年7月19日 · Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin is one of the most-read texts in architecture schools worldwide. A former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and former director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, his design work has received numerous ...
Why “Use Is the Best Form of Preservation” - Common Edge
网页2021年8月10日 · Why “Use Is the Best Form of Preservation”. 08.10.2021. By Justin R. Wolf. For more than a generation, federally funded historic tax credits (HTCs) have been instrumental in incentivizing developers to revive and reuse historic buildings and keep them economically viable, rather than replace them with shiny new objects.
The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild …
网页2019年6月21日 · A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive.
The Clever Trick for Living in 350 Square Feet – Common Edge
网页2024年8月6日 · Just outside our front door we have access to an inviting, thriving, and socially connected public realm and life, and it is this very public reality and set of conditions that make living in 350 square feet feel, well, normal, and like plenty. Blocks are short, sidewalks are generous, streets are relatively narrow, and trees and front yard ...
The Architecture of “Thin Places” and How to Design Them
网页2023年11月27日 · Tabb is an architect and an emeritus architecture professor who has also written books about biophilia, sustainability, and urban design. Places that are “thin” offer experiences outside of the everyday—they might be extraordinary or blissfully serene, restorative, or healing. They are often mysterious, thought-provoking, awe-inspiring.
The Case for a Feeling Architecture – Common Edge
网页2021年3月2日 · In 1982, Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman held a public discussion at Harvard about the philosophy of architecture. Alexander began by noting that the core of architecture “depends, as it always has, on feeling.”. Eisenman strongly disagreed, noting that core emotion experienced in his body (and specifically in …