When a 7.9 earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province on May 12, 2008, the global structural engineering community mobilized, sharing information and...
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Q: What do you wish architects understood more about engineering? Susie See: I think architects know a whole bunch about...
For architects, reflecting on engineering has always proved difficult. No matter how good the initial intentions, more often than not the...
Invention is the product of the imagination—the discovery, sudden or deliberate, of a way of getting something done. Invention may be...
In the course of teaching structural design in the architecture program at California College of the Arts, I had a student...
Architects are creative, but egotistical, flaky, and self-promoting. Engineers are thorough, but inflexible, stubborn, and socially awkward. Do these stereotypes that...
Here we are in the midst of the election season, and it’s so difficult to stay clear of partisan thoughts. But...
Two alleys run the length of the town of Niles, California, parallel to its three main streets. Their function is to...
States with the most interior design firms (2003 data) California 1461 Florida 1437 New York 1050 www.census.gov Largest California interior design...
What is FF&E? Confusion abounds for this acronym, which really means “furniture, furnishings and equipment,” not “fixtures, furniture and...
In his lifetime, the San Francisco architect Joseph Esherick (1914-1998) won the highest honors of the profession for design, education,...
I was brought up to sketch using traditional water color—no erasures, no second chances, no overpainting, and the paper white. Over many...
