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Inviting Seniors Out

We have not done a great job in America designing for the “senior surge” that has arrived as the baby...
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Affordable Senior Housing as an Engine for Urban Revitalization

Housing is essential to urban revitalization. This is particularly true for development in “challenge areas”—areas where projects are designed to...
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At Home with Growing Old: Carrying Home with You

My landlady was in her early eighties when, as an architecture student, I rented her downstairs in-law unit. It was...
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Looking to Europe

California is not alone in needing more housing alternatives for aging. Europe, with nine of the ten fastest aging countries...
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Design for Aging: Portfolio

This portfolio was originally published 2nd quarter 2009, in arcCA 09.2, “Design for Aging,” accompanying Joyce Polhamus’s “Architectural Opportunities in Design...
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Architectural Opportunities in Design for Aging

  Kenneth Caldwell, a writer and communications consultant based in San Francisco, interviews Joyce Polhamus, AIA, LEED AP, a vice...
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Design for an Aging California

  The Golden State is beginning to show its age, graying a bit as the Baby Boomers of the 1960s...
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Design for Aging: Editor’s Comment

In arcCA 09.2, we look at current research and development in design for aging. As Andrew Scharlach, professor of social...
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Age, Difference, and Time

  The focus of the 2nd quarter 2009 issue of arcCA, “Design for Aging,” is on concrete examples that represent...
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Coda: Greenwood Common

Greenwood Common, a two-and-a-half acre modernist enclave with a grand open green space and views across the San Francisco Bay...
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. . . and Counting

“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous...
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Mad Scientists, Rabble Rousers, and Other Thoughtful People

arcCA asked a dozen and a half thought leaders to reflect on the most misunderstood notions, the most neglected problems,...
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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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