How Design Impacts Health
By A. Ray Pentecost III, DrPH, FAIA, FACHA, LEED-AP Does the environment really influence our health? Certainly. It can contribute to our getting sick, and it can contribute to our better health....
View ArticleAn Example of Form-Based Code: Orange, Va.
One element associated with the Smart Growth and New Urbanism movements has become what is often referred to as the form-based or transect-based code (where “transect” refers to the categorization of...
View ArticleArchitects Aim for a Pandemic of Health
By Tye Farrow, FRAIC The National Oncology Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago connects patients to serene, natural respite, which soothes the mind and thereby heals the body. Image courtesy of...
View ArticleThe Classroom Is Dead
The Rise of Integrated Learning Spaces and the Education of the Whole Child By Robert W. Moje, AIA, LEED AP Principal, VMDO Manassas Park Elementary School in Fairfax County, designed by VMDO, has...
View Article2012 ArchEX Addresses Sustainability, Well-being, and Resilience
The Architectural Exchange East conference in Richmond November 8-9 featured a wide array of programs on topics ranging from marketing, inclusion, diversity, and emerging professionals to...
View ArticleA Remembrence and an Affront
By Richard Guy Wilson Taste changes and so do our perception of history and the past. More than 225 years ago, the future president of the United States and arguably one of our most important...
View ArticleWithout an Experiential Concept, Is It Architecture?
Update: Bernard Tschumi is the keynote speaker for the 2013 ArchEX conference. Interview by Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, July 26, 2013 Bernard Tschumi and Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh: I want to...
View ArticleBuildings Don’t Claim Space, They Frame Space
The University of Virginia’s Architect for the University David J. Neuman, FAIA, explains the meaning of context for that historic campus. In the land use planning for the University of Virginia, both...
View ArticleDesign Dialogue: Brian MacKay-Lyons
Photo by Cherish Rosas Brian MacKay-Lyons is the founding partner of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, a professor at Dalhousie University, and the founder of Ghost Lab – the now legendary 2-week...
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