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Intergenerational Living at Humanitas Deventer A Model for Thriving Communities
In Deventer, Netherlands, a pioneering living arrangement is transforming the ideas of community and care. Humanitas Retirement Village...
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Why I Sketch: Learning Through Drawing
Sketch from Copenhagen, Denmark In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi reflects on the Italian word schizzo (sketch) and its layered...
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Architecture and Fascism
A four-week trip to Rome in 1993 left me with more than just photographs. It sparked a lifelong reflection on how architecture carries—and sometimes sheds—its ideological baggage. What happens when symbols of authoritarianism meet the icons of pop culture? A Mickey Mouse banner on a Fascist monument gave me an unexpected answer.
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AL(one)+TO(gether) Homes: An Architectural Response to the Mental Health Crisis
The global pandemic taught us many things—but one truth rang loud and clear: isolation isn’t natural, and it’s not healthy . Lockdowns...
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Fire Hardening Homes – Structure
Because of its flexibility wood has become the material of choice for construction of homes in earthquake prone California. That said...
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Fire Hardening Homes – Active Fire Suppression System
People have been adding sprinklers to roofs and exteriors of buildings for years. Unfortunately, that’s only as good as your water...
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Fire Hardening Homes – Envelope
via AP Photo / Ethan Swope Fire Intrusion: There are points where wind carried embers that can travel miles and easily make entry into a...
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Fire Hardening Homes – Landscape
via ANG News Brush Clearance: Let’s be honest… one of the most obvious ways to protect a structure is brush clearance. Growing up my...
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After LA Fires: A California native architect mourns the loss…
I’m writing this while the news is reporting yet another wildfire. Let me start with… we are deeply saddened by the apocalyptic...
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