Inspiration from Donald Judd
When you attend architecture school one of the first classes you are required to take is art history. As a young student I sat in…
Articles by Nathan M. Gillette
An Artist’s Home and Studio in a 19th Century Cast-iron-façade Building Receives 21st Century Upgrades While Maintaining the Artist’s Stark Vision
Despite shunning the term “minimalism” throughout his lifelong career, Artist Donald Judd is nonetheless considered one of the theory’s great scholars. Judd (1928-94) believed how…
So Much Yet to Do in New Orleans and Other Natural Disaster Sites
Recently I took a trip to New Orleans, a city I love dearly and have visited many times in recent years. This trip was a…
Reuse, Re-cool
I was intrigued by “Inspiration” on the back page of the January-February issue of retrofit about the town of Nocona, Texas, reclaiming its identity in…
Low-hanging Fruit
USA Today Disparages “Easy” LEED Credits, Which Is Nothing New In my article titled “LEED and Economic Development,” I discussed USA Today’s criticism of LEED’s…
LEED and Economic Development
Green-building Incentives Promote Renovation and Redevelopment in a Down Economy Recently USA Today published an analysis of the Washington, D.C.- based U.S. Green Building Council’s…