What is embodied carbon? Embodied carbon is the sum of all the greenhouse gas emissions (mostly carbon dioxide) resulting from...
Each season, arcCA DIGEST asks experts in the season’s theme – this time around, the materials from which buildings are made...
“Your body is the ‘house of your soul’”—or so the saying goes. But what kind of body is this “house”? To...
The Healthy Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design, “dedicated to a world in which...
“The mindful MATERIALS Library is a multi-stakeholder initiative developed by the building industry for the building industry, providing a common...
As Matt Hickman wrote this May in The Architect’s Newspaper, “David Baker Architects (DBA), a San Francisco architecture firm whose solution-oriented...
Mark R. Miller, FAIA, is CEO of the award-winning companies MKThink and RoundhouseOne. His professional efforts are dedicated to creating...
The Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering graduate group at UC Merced conducts materials science research in three areas of...
“New Material” explores recent advances in materials, architectural and otherwise; and reviews the 2002 AIA California Council Design Award winners....
Ceramic blocks that make electricity from urine? Cement made from desalination sludge? CO2-absorbing curtains of algae? These are just...
In response to growing concerns over COVID-19, Healthy Building Network (HBN) and global architecture and design firm Perkins and Will...
Because architectural decision making is increasingly dependent on research, we introduce here two aggregators of scientific papers, Science Daily and...
