Hands-On Student Competition Creates Pipeline of Talent for Skills Trade

The annual SkillsUSA Championship doesn’t have the name recognition of the Super Bowl or the Summer Olympics but it is every bit the spectacle. Each year, more than 6,400 stu ... Read More

Hand Sketching Is Experiencing a Resurgence. However, Analog and Digital Are Not Competing but Complementary Tools that Result in Richer Building Designs When Combined.

In his 2014 book, Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi posed a rather poignant question: Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a ... Read More

Harvard University Updates a Brutalist Structure Into a Campus Center That Also Supports the Wider Community

Designed as an administrative building by Josep Lluis Sert, dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, in 1958, Holyoke Center, a Brutalist building on Harvard S ... Read More

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Proves Any Building Can Become Green

Exploring the Exhibit Staging Center today, visitors see a beautiful building at the cutting edge of sustainability. For decades, though, the facility sat largely unused, dil ... Read More