Articles by Nathan M. Gillette

Custom windows that met the historic-preservation requirements were specified for the project. Low-iron glass was used on the exterior pane for historical appropriateness and low-E glass was used on the interior pane to reduce solar heat gain.

Multifamily September 9, 2013

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…

Blog May 7, 2013

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…

Blog February 12, 2013

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…

Online Exclusive January 11, 2013

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…

Business, Features January 11, 2013

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…

Blog November 19, 2012

Satisfaction in Adaptive Reuse

Every once in awhile you get one of those projects where everything just goes right. I was thinking back over my architecture projects that I’ve…

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