Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was always intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s pattern language #160 “Building Edge” in which he implores us to “treat the edge of the building as a ‘thing,’, a ‘place,’ a zone with volume to it, not a line or interface with no thickness.”

Housing 63

Housing Design Residential Consulting 63

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book. and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons).

Cities 84

Cities Housing Technology Technology 84

Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

This elegant complex includes rehearsal spaces and public zones in addition to a central performance area, celebrating the sense in which theatre is a community. In 2010, she coauthored the book Networks Cities, which investigates the perils of zoning and the positives of mixed-use planning by advocating for integrative city-networks.

Architecture 101

Architecture Firms Inspiration Education 101

e-architect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Her response to an infrastructure which is otherwise hidden, inaccessible, remote and abstract is a community-owned research facility that is accessible to all and marries architecture and technology beautifully and responsibly: 3DReid Student Prize 2021 Winner News. This includes most recently at the Housing & Finance Institute.

Building 57

Building Architecture Students Government 57