In normal times, there is a natural evolution of trends. These can ebb and flow as one jumps ahead and another takes a step back. We’ve…
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In our March-April issue’s “Trend Alert” we explored the growing trend toward local geographic and cultural influences in place of standardized design approaches not only for…
Not long ago, you could walk into a major hotel or restaurant chain anywhere around the world and you wouldn’t know if you were in New…
At the midpoint of 2019, the Washington, D.C.-based American Institute of Architects released an update from its Consensus Construction Forecast Panel that projected a 4 percent…
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…
In a 2016 episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air”, Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid, characterized America’s electrical infrastructure as increasingly unstable, underfunded and incapable of taking…