The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild …
Jun 21, 2019 · A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive.
An Architect Who Never Designed a Hospital Gives a Doctor Just …
Nov 25, 2019 · Ambulatory surgical procedures are routine in the U.S., but that’s not the case for most of the world. According to Dr. Michael Marin, head of surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, 5 billion people have no access to safe and affordable surgery procedures, a reality that in 2010 led to nearly 17 million deaths across the globe.
Hidden Figures: The Historic Contributions of Black Architects
Oct 5, 2020 · Designer Paul Wellington, based in Milwaukee, is the author of Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, a book that documents more than 40 works of architecture around the country by Black architects that have had a direct impact on communities or color.He’s now working on a new book that will focus on Black women architects in a field dominated by white males.
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
Aug 27, 2020 · The most arresting image, among many, in the documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, directed by Alison Ellwood, is a black-and-white photograph of Eric Clapton visiting Los Angeles for the first time on tour with Cream. He sits a few feet from Joni Mitche ll, who is playing guitar, with a visibly stoned David Crosby in the …
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The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis. 10.02.2024. By Josh Stephens. A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history. More.
Why Architects Still Struggle With Disability Requirements 28 …
Dec 19, 2018 · The recent death of President George H.W. Bush occasioned assessments of his administration’s legislative achievements, one of which was the far-ranging Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights act signed into law in 1990.
Household Dame: The Visionary Modernism of Eileen Gray
Nov 2, 2020 · It was reputedly a lovers’ spa t: Two passionate artists had a falling out and broke up. Like many things in Eileen Gray’s 98-year life, it was dramatic, consequential, and shrouded in mystery. Now considered one of the 20th century’s most influential modernist pioneers in the male-dominated fields of architecture, interiors, and …
My Favorite Street: Rue Saint-Denis, Paris – Common Edge
Jul 24, 2017 · A good street is like a river. Rue Saint-Denis flows through the history of Paris. It’s a segment of an ancient trade road that dates from the Bronze Age—a thoroughfare for merchants and pilgrims working their way up and down the French peninsula between Spain and England. A historic street, it winds its way down, from the top of Paris ...
How Do You Teach Kids About Urban Planning? Let Them Play.
Jan 12, 2021 · Across age levels, the students initially understood urban planning and cities as mainly consisting of static objects once removed from their everyday lives. Yet when we then introduced the exercise of having them build what they loved to do in cities—their favorite activity, their favorite place—the students created cities that were much ...
The Restoration Argument: Respecting Viollet-Le-Duc at Notre …
Apr 25, 2019 · Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) invented modern restoration—both theory and practice. His first laboratory was Notre-Dame de Paris, and he spent virtually his entire professional life studying the cathedral and restoring it. Indeed, everything he added, subtracted, or restored is documented in extensive records and writings.