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Climate change was removed from whitehouse.gov today. What does this mean...
Directly following the inauguration of our new 45th president, whitehouse.gov received an overhaul. The most notable change was the complete deletion of the climate change page, which previously...
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Architecture in the Trump Era: A Report from Columbia GSAPP by A.L. Hu
A week after taking to the streets for the Women’s March in New York City and two weeks into the spring semester, I felt restless and helpless as the barrage of outrageous news took its toll. It’s...
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Frank Gehry, Architectural Education, and the “Future of Prisons”
Last week the Architect’s Newspaper reported that Frank Gehry, the 88-year old superstar of American architecture, is teaching a course at SCI-Arc this spring entitled “The Future of Prison.” To...
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The Impossible Innocence of Architecture
There are as many definitions of architecture as there are architects. It is something that will never be set in stone, and that’s a good thing. At the same time, ‘What is architecture?’ is an...
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The Amnesias of "Make New History"
Before there was Mies, there was Mecca. Built originally as a hotel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Mecca Apartments, which once occupied the site of the now-heralded IIT campus in...
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How Can Architecture Respond to the 1.5ºC Imperative?
The recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change alters the discussion of architecture and environment. The report, released on October 11, is alarming. As the Guardian puts it “we...
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With Peter Zumthor's LACMA in the Home Stretch, Is Los Angeles Entering its...
Despite vocal critical and popular outcry, Atelier Peter Zumthor's controversial Los Angeles County Museum of Art replacement project is moving full-steam ahead and is due to begin construction...
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Milton S. F. Curry, USC Architecture Dean: Observations on Draft White House...
Milton S. F. Curry, Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture, shares his perspective on the recently proposed "Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" draft executive order.
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Let's Move the Conversation From Demolition to Creating More Affordable...
At the end of February, a surprising decision by a state judge revoked the approval for the top 20 floors of 200 Amsterdam Avenue, a market-rate, luxury, residential building on the Upper West Side in...
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How will Home Designs Change in the Age of Social Distancing?
The nature of many of our professions to conduct business and service in close proximity demands us to be confined to our homes and neighborhoods for indefinite period of time resulting in...
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Op-Ed: Don’t Waste A Recession
"Your Life Must Suck."That was the greeting I received from the CEO of a structural engineering firm during an AIA event in 2010. As the founder of an executive search + management consulting firm in...
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This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land—COVID-19’s Impact on Indian...
As we prepare for the 4th of July holiday, we take this time to honor our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers. We reflect on what our relations fought for—these Indigenous...
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What Will Airports Look Like Post-COVID-19?
Airports are the cathedrals of the 21st century – a physical space that reflects cultural, historical and sociological trends, while ushering millions of people to their respective destinations....
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It's a Great Time to Invest in the Maintenance of Public Lands
Last month, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass an amended version of the Great American Outdoors Act (S.3422), legislation originally introduced in the House of Representatives under a...
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Build Something Big! One Million New Affordable Housing Units, 2020-2030
The USA has an ever-growing affordable housing problem. For Black Americans, however, this problem has been a chronic condition that desperately requires a solution. As DC-based architect and author...
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Op-Ed: The Future of Zoning in New York City
It is evident that architecture and design, like most industries, is in a state of flux. From how offices are conceptualized to the way our cities are built, the global COVID-19 health crisis and the...
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The City is dead! Long live the City!
I was recently one of a party in a hot air balloon floating serenely over the Serengeti when it developed a leak and began to descend towards a crocodile infested swamp. There was no other option –...
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Are the Doors Closing on the Open Office?
As workers return to their offices after the regional lockdowns implemented to stop the spread of Coronavirus, there is a new reckoning in the workplace: Will the open office survive?
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Form Follows Fascism Redux
This country’s deeply ingrained white supremacy and the resurgence of fascism have revealed themselves, last night, to be undeniably mutually reinforcing. When this antidemocratic and racist president...
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Black MD’s, Lawyers…and Architects; Part 1
In the eyes and minds of Black America the two professions of medicine and law sit at the apex of respect, envy, and essentiality – as well they should. In my book, African American Architects:...
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Transforming Climate Pessimism Into Resilient Design Action
Like in so many places across the US, summer of 2021 was announced by the symphonic celebration of cicadas that, for seventeen long years, were patiently colluding within the earth’s caverns before...
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Architecture Gave Me a Black Eye: A Note to Architectural Educators
I was eight years old when I entered my first slave quarter—that was the first time architecture hit me. It was the first time that I can recall thinking about spaces that dictated where my race...
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Design, Incorporated; Unpacking the Myths of the SCI-Arc Panel
At one point during the recent SCI-Arc panel discussion, “How to be in an office,” students were presented with a choice. They were presented, on one hand, Design Firms, and on the other hand,...
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Architecture is lost at sea. And that may be a good thing.
It is fully lame to say that “times have changed.” Because time is change.I have made things for 45 years. In some places the work has been lauded, but others have decried what I do as traditionally...
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It’s Time To Consider the Refugee Camp as a City — And Here’s Why
With the horizon of increased global instability closer than ever, whereby the scales of political balance can be so quickly tipped and toppled, questions relating to the rights of displaced peoples in...
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Architecture 2030's Ed Mazria outlines an environmentally-responsible plan...
A Sleeping Giant AwakensThe election of Donald Trump, and a hastily composed (and later retracted) post-election statement by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), has galvanized the U.S. design...
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Architects: If You Don't Start Disrupting Urbanism, Silicon Valley Will Do...
When Mountain View start-up incubator YCombinator announced this June that the company would be creating an initiative around designing new cities, it was easy for architects and urbanists to laugh.
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