City as Verb takes the familiar nouns used to describe our urban environments and simply changes them into verbs. This seemingly simple conceptual shift has deep consequences: For instance, instead using the word ‘street,’ we change it to ‘moving’…
Design at the scale between urban planning and architecture is rapidly gaining relevance as cities increasingly grapple with cultural, ecological, and economic viability. However, the limited tools of the architect that lead to ineffectively conceptualizing…
If we use language as a metaphor, a current wave of architects has quietly begun reassembling the elements of housing into new syntaxes. While each work in this book and represents a unique solution, their innovations can be seen as typological advances…
The 2013 Sciame Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. There are uncanny parallels between the 1960s and today in terms of social, political, and environmental issues. However…
