Why Architects Still Struggle With Disability Requirements 28 …
网页2018年12月19日 · The recent death of President George H.W. Bush occasioned assessments of his administration’s legislative achievements, one of which was the far-ranging Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights act signed into law in 1990.
Duo Dickinson - Common Edge
网页2024年7月17日 · Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time. 05.30.2024. By Duo Dickinson. The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence. More.
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 ...
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.
David Waggonner on New Orleans and the Way Forward After Ida
网页2021年9月23日 · His firm, Waggonner & Ball, convened the Dutch Dialogues after Hurricane Katrina, which brought experts from the Netherlands to the city. The firm also helped guide the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, an influential planning document and an authentic roadmap for the future. As it turned out, I talked to David twice, a month before ...
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网页Jay-Z’s Unseemly Takeover of Brooklyn’s Central Library. 11.21.2023. By Norman Oder. Crowds love “The Book of HOV,” but the library has ceded public space for a self-produced tribute from his company, Roc Nation. More.
Educating Architects in a Post-Pandemic World - Common Edge
网页2020年10月14日 · The Covid-19 pandemic has raised a series of questions about the challenges facing the two-centuries-old canons of architectural education, their suitability to a post-pandemic digital world, and what the future of architectural education in the current university system might be.. In a period of less than three weeks, commencing in March, architecture schools around the world made significant ...
Why the Fire at Notre Dame Elicited Few Tears in Africa
网页2019年12月30日 · The fire at Notre-Dame, tragic as it was, does provide an opportunity, a valuable historic backdrop, for a larger and long overdue discussion about France’s cultural legacy in Africa. Keep in mind: that legacy remains every bit as painful for us, as the fire at Notre-Dame was for the people of France. We know what it’s like to lose our ...
Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World
网页2024年6月18日 · Severe weather has worsened in the five years since the publication of my book Designing for Disaster. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cataloged 186 severe storms that caused at least $1 billion in damage from 1980 through 2023. Over a third of these events—with wind gusts of …
Activating the Edges: How to Create Lively, Active Streets
网页2022年9月14日 · Activating the edges means preventing dormant spots where dynamic uses should prevail. Prioritize interactive uses—community spaces, courtyards, entries, or seating—in the prime space where the building meets the street edge, to ensure a lively interaction between the building and public realm. When placing required elements like …
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