We have not done a great job in America designing for the “senior surge” that has arrived as the baby...
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Housing is essential to urban revitalization. This is particularly true for development in “challenge areas”—areas where projects are designed to...
My landlady was in her early eighties when, as an architecture student, I rented her downstairs in-law unit. It was...
California is not alone in needing more housing alternatives for aging. Europe, with nine of the ten fastest aging countries...
This portfolio was originally published 2nd quarter 2009, in arcCA 09.2, “Design for Aging,” accompanying Joyce Polhamus’s “Architectural Opportunities in Design...
Kenneth Caldwell, a writer and communications consultant based in San Francisco, interviews Joyce Polhamus, AIA, LEED AP, a vice...
The Golden State is beginning to show its age, graying a bit as the Baby Boomers of the 1960s...
In arcCA 09.2, we look at current research and development in design for aging. As Andrew Scharlach, professor of social...
The focus of the 2nd quarter 2009 issue of arcCA, “Design for Aging,” is on concrete examples that represent...
Greenwood Common, a two-and-a-half acre modernist enclave with a grand open green space and views across the San Francisco Bay...
“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous...
arcCA asked a dozen and a half thought leaders to reflect on the most misunderstood notions, the most neglected problems,...






