Op-Ed Archives - The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/category/print/op-ed/ The most authoritative voice on architecture and design in the United States. Fri, 10 May 2024 17:43:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 What can architects learn from skateboarding? Both create communities by navigating form and function https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/what-can-architects-learn-from-skateboarding-both-create-communities-by-navigating-form-and-function/ Thu, 09 May 2024 16:30:48 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375892 As a community-driven architect, I have always sought to create spaces that change people first, and this eventually changes whole cities. My journey to the field of architecture wasn’t typical.

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ACSA Fellows to Advance Equity in Architecture confront the “dangerous smearing and doxing” of pro-Palestine scholars with a new platform https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/acsa-fellows-equity-pro-palestine-scholars-new-platform/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:13:45 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=374483 Almost four years have passed since the public lynching of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Today, after myriad calls for architecture as a discipline to reckon

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New York’s FLACO Act is a start, but bird safety legislation could go further https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/flaco-act-bird-safety-legislation-could-go-further/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:23:23 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=374416 The untimely death of New York City’s beloved Flaco the owl has prompted renewed calls to make New York safer for birds, and rightfully so. As an architect, I’ve seen the

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Iconic New York print shop Casa Magazines is bought by Iconic Magazines https://www.archpaper.com/2024/03/iconic-new-york-print-shop-casa-magazines-is-bought-by-iconic-magazines/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:58:59 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=373108 If you’ve ever walked through Soho you know the branding of Iconic Magazines’s corner shops. While small by national standards, the downtown chain of corner stores have a telltale black-and-white

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Renovated homes in Levittown evidence our algorithmic real estate reality https://www.archpaper.com/2024/02/renovated-homes-levittown-real-estate-reality/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:21:49 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=371528 Facades, cluttered. Materials, uncomplimentary. Bathroom tiles glisten at the base of a facade, and glass railings on Juliet balconies cast distorted reflections of plastic triangular profiles. In Levittown, New York,

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Lots Will Tear Us Apart is a call for reclaiming type as an architectural project https://www.archpaper.com/2024/01/lots-will-tear-us-apart-is-a-call-for-reclaiming-type-as-an-architectural-project/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:15:01 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=370336 We live in San Francisco, a city once known for its counterculture, labor unions, hippie communes, and offering of sanctuary to those that felt like outcasts. But decades of cultural

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At COP28 conversations on the phasing out of oil felt paradoxical amidst the Dubai backdrop https://www.archpaper.com/2024/01/cop28-phasing-out-oil-paradoxical-dubai/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:19:19 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=369783 It’s a lengthy journey from Dubai’s original city center to the Expo City Dubai grounds, which hosted the UN Climate Change Conference known as COP28. One can either hire a

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Three responses to NCARB’s licensure op-ed challenge ideas related to equality and education https://www.archpaper.com/2024/01/three-responses-ncarb-op-ed-licensure-equality-education/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:26:01 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=369560 On November 30, 2023, AN published an op-ed by NCARB president Jon Baker about his personal experience and NCARB’s statement endorsing multiple pathways to licensure. AN received the following responses

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Advocating for code change to increase access to modular/emergency housing https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/advocating-code-change-increase-access-modular-emergency-housing/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:19:26 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=368874 In 2021, the Census Bureau estimated that an estimated 3.7 million Americans experienced housing insecurity, and an additional 14 percent of respondents, or 7.7 million Americans, are behind on their

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SOM’s new Washington D.C. office prioritizes people and lowers carbon footprint https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/soms-dc-office-prioritizes-people-lowers-carbon-footprint/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:53:46 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=347052 Since the pandemic, collaborative momentum has shifted back to the physical workplace, but our work-from-home experience has left an indelible mark. Zoom meetings, digital collaboration tools, and partial work-from-home schedules

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