(original text) EXPERIMENTAL GREEN STRATEGIES Defining new ways in which architects are responding to the challenge of creating sustainable architecture, Experimental Green Strategies presents a state of the art in applied ecological, architectural research. But can a building be “ecological”? How can architects in practice carry out “research”? Is “green” building a designer’s problem, or […]
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American Postwar Housing problem The Case Study House Program “embraced a belief that the modernist ideals could be part of the postwar home.”
The Eames Primer is special in that it is written by Charles and Ray Eames’ grandaughter. It reveals not only the professional life but only their personal lives, in a way that each illuminates the other. The book discussed the upbringings of both Charles and Ray, their lives before their marriage, and how their interests […]
Preface: In the preface, Dhiru A. Thadani recounts his personal engagement with Seaside, when he met Andre Duany at his lecture at the Catholic University of America, where Duany “discussed the idea of making a town whose constituent parts included a mix of uses that commonly support daily lives – housing, office, retail, and civic […]
Tuan Nguyen 2018 | Mexico City My persistence has paid off. I finally got a spot to visit Luis Barragan’s house and studio in the late afternoon. Sitting in the garden of the house next to it, I am now enjoying my coffee and cooling myself down from the emotions. What I saw was like […]
What to say about the Old Quarter of Hanoi? As a Hanoian, I used to take it for granted. I had the Old Quarter on my side, in each of my childhood’s journeys. Every late afternoon, I would walk along Nguyen Huu Huan street, starting from exiting Tran Nhat Duat street, which runs along the […]