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Please Consider the Environment before Printing
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had...
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Rescue a Life in this, Our Time of Need
When’s the last time you did something nice for an architect? Architects are seen by most as self-reliant. They don’t need anything from anyone, except perhaps a patron or a client now and then....
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107 Reasons Why You, Architect, Matter
We’re often asked to imagine life without people, life without buildings, even life without oil. But how about a world without architects? That’s not so hard to imagine. It’s easy if you’re...
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Are You a Koala or Raccoon?
All architects are by training generalists and then in practice become specialists. To see that this is true we only need to look at Vitruvius’s bucket list for the training of architects: to be...
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Maybe What the Architecture Profession Needs is a Small Heart Attack
What will it take for us to change? That’s the question I posed recently to a psychologist and a professor. First, it’s important to recognize that architecture is a conservative profession. We’re...
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A Lifeline for a Profession Adrift
Using books as floatation devices is nothing new. Cradle to Cradle, subtitled Remaking the Way We Make Things, is printed on waterproof paper for this reason. Poetry anthologies served this purpose...
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