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Blog Is In the Details

“It’s not easy being green.” So famously lamented (in song nonetheless) that most iconic of Muppets, Kermit the Frog. These...
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Book Review: The Urban Homestead

The Urban Homestead, by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen. Port Townsend, Washington: Process Media, 2008. The victory garden may have...
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Getting Specific: Arcade 27.01–04

The Seattle-based quarterly Arcade is that rare commodity, a critical west coast journal of ideas on architecture and design. Focused...
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Emerging Water-Smart Design

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens        ...
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A Sea Level Rise Strategy for the San Francisco Bay Region

Over the past few years, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has become increasingly concerned that continued sea...
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New Metrics for a Sustainable Planet

Great architecture and urbanism have never truly been defined by quantitative requirements and standards. They are about the atmosphere of...
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Global Benchmarking? Taking a Critical Look at Sustainable Design in the U.S.

Human life has always depended on variables such as population, resources, and environment. Today, however, we are perhaps the first...
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Real Mitigation of Climate Change: The Path to Zero Net Energy Buildings

This all started (more or less) back in 1973. The Energy Crisis with its sudden fury, fracturing economic and political...
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Re-Designing Good Design

“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”...
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Coda: An Urban Design Vision for Orinda, California

Orinda is a suburb of 17,000 people, 15 miles east of San Francisco, noted for its weather, topography, and schools....
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. . . and Counting

3 recent books on infrastructure Ambiguous Spaces, by Nannette Jackowski, Princeton Architectural Press 2008 The Infrastructural City, edited by Kazys...
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Off the Grid 2.0: “Healing the Damaged Edge,” Horseshoe Cove at Fort Baker Ideas Competition for Restorative Design

The California Architectural Foundation, through the William Turnbull, Jr., Environmental Education program, furthers the general public’s understanding about the synergistic...
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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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