The recipients of the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 Housing Awards include $100,000 houses in Philadelphia built to exacting LEED Platinum standards, a high-rise interpretation of New Orleans’s low-slung French Quarter, ...READ»
We live in an age lashed by natural disasters. Katrina obviously looms in the American mind, but the Sichuan Earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami have all imprinted themselves on an entire generation, worldwide. What could we ...READ»
Difficult problems beget ingenious design solutions. Tokyo's stunning levels of overcrowding pose one of the most severe architectural constraints around--it's one of the reason that it's become home to lots of amazing architecture ...READ»
Modern architecture is no stranger to the greenhouse effect--the heat trapping ability of glass is what has often rendered so many modernist house by Mies van der Rohe and others extraodinariy expensive to cool. But this ...READ»
