What Indigenous Architecture Can Teach Us About Incorporating Nature
Indigenous architecture provides some important lessons in building with nature rather than against it.
Indigenous architecture provides some important lessons in building with nature rather than against it.
A new e-book by futurist Alex Steffen argues that cities are the key to environmental salvation.
The executive director of the Seattle 2030 District talks about the birth of his organization and the way forward.
Andy Revkin talks about his view of the environmental road ahead
New York City’s densely populated waterfronts may need a rethink in the future.
Healthy building materials—and a transparent system to evaluate them—are the keys to healthy buildings.
With Empowerhouse, students from various schools have designed a passive home in Washington D.C.
The American Institute of Architects is committed to creating solutions for public health.
A refugee from Hurricane Sandy discusses climate-related issues that will plague costal cities in the future.
How many times in the last week, or even in the last day, have you looked at your smart phone, iPad, car, television, some type of technology, and said, “I love you”? We often treat machines as if they are…
Tablets are revolutionizing how people interact with information. We can now walk around with libraries in our knapsacks and the touch screen interface has enabled us to bridge the physical-abstract divide. The universe is now pushed and prodded, and just…
Jeff Stein, photo by Jared Green At 42 Arcosanti, a community north of Phoenix, Arizona has been celebrated, yet generally ignored, by the world at large. Nevertheless, the place that architect Paolo Soleri and his followers built in the desert,…
Why does Victor Papanek’s scathing, 41-year-old critique of the profession still read as if it were written today?
Open Source architecture can give everyone access to design, but it has a long way to go before it can solve everyone's problems.
New York could learn how to handle water near the city from Dutch methods.
We have a wicked problem. As a society we waste an awful lot of materials. Consider, for instance, the sheer volume of packaging that hits the recycling bin after we open cheap consumer electronics and then replace them in rapid…
Research is an important part of the design process, and doing it right can make a big difference.
One auto expert's take on the future of cars.
An outline of HOK's plan for sustainable energy systems.
Humans need to interact with their environment in the same way that keystone species do.