Essays, research, and articles on architecture, spatial practice, and methodology.
Not home, not work: the café, the stair, the square where a neighborhood actually happens. Why "third places" went from a sociology term to a public health strategy, and what that means for how we design.
Developers keep building student housing around lazy rivers and cinema rooms. The data, and a generation, say the things that matter are quieter, cheaper, and much harder to fake.
Why does one square fill with life while another, a block away, sits empty? Four conditions, drawn from Jane Jacobs and tested on our own projects, decide whether a public space works.
Not every old building deserves saving, and not every one deserves the wrecking ball. The three-way test we run on every existing structure before we design a single new thing.
The reuse of existing buildings is the fastest-growing idea in architecture, and the clearest single way to cut a project's carbon. A plain-English guide for anyone weighing what to do with an old building.
An abandoned, plague-scarred island in the Venetian lagoon, empty since 1968 — and a repeatable method for bringing a dead place back to life without erasing what made it matter.
