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The Materials Issue

Future Materials

  Ceramic blocks that make electricity from urine? Cement made from desalination sludge? CO2-absorbing curtains of algae? These are just...
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The Materials Issue

Mindful Materials Library

“The mindful MATERIALS Library is a multi-stakeholder initiative developed by the building industry for the building industry, providing a common...
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The Place of Interior Design

“Your body is the ‘house of your soul’”—or so the saying goes. But what kind of body is this “house”? To...
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Research Aggregators

Because architectural decision making is increasingly dependent on research, we introduce here two aggregators of scientific papers, Science Daily and...
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The Materials Issue

Healthy Materials Lab

The Healthy Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design, “dedicated to a world in which...
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The Materials Issue

2020 Firm Award

As Matt Hickman wrote this May in The Architect’s Newspaper, “David Baker Architects (DBA), a San Francisco architecture firm whose solution-oriented...
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The Motivation Issue

Motivation: What Students Say

Each season, arcCA DIGEST asks experts in the season’s theme to identify emerging issues, problems, opportunities, circumstances, etc., to which...
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The Motivation Issue

Why Be an Architect?

“The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world...
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The Motivation Issue

Fulfilling a Sense of Responsibility to the Education of Architectural Students

In “Fulfilling a Sense of Responsibility to the Education of Architectural Students,” originally published 14 December 2019 on LinkedIn, Shaunt...
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The Motivation Issue

“Is Architecture Worth It?”

The Midnight Charette is an explicit podcast about design and the everyday. Hosted by architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet,...
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The Motivation Issue

“Stop asking where all the female architects are; we’re right here”

On Saturday, October 26th, 2019, Irish architect Yvonne Farrell spoke at the Monterey Design Conference. On March 3rd, 2020, she...
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The Motivation Issue

“Architects Anonymous”

Like many architects, Jody Brown of Durham, North Carolina, was laid off in 2009, and, like some, he started a...
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Editorial Board, 2019-2024

Shannon Calder
Lucy Campbell, MLIS
Leigh Christy, FAIA
Anne Cotter, AIA
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, Editor
Nicki Dennis Stephens, Hon. AIA
Andres Diaz, AIA
Wyatt Frantom, FAIA

 

Alan Hess
Lisa Matthiessen, FAIA
Ian Merker, AIA
Mark Miller, FAIA
Tibby Rothman, Hon. AIA|LA
Simon Sadler, PhD
Maxine Ward, AIA

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