The Marvin Gaye Recreation Center, designed by ISTUDIO co-founder and principal Rick Harlan Schneider, FAIA, utilizes natural ventilation to circulate air and passively cool more than 7,000 square feet of multipurpose space.
Architecture firms in all regions of the country reported increasing billings for the second consecutive month.
How we move shapes the evolution of cities, and cities, by virtue of their diversity, compactness, and capacity to innovate, will play a critical role in solving chronic problems revealed by the pandemic. To successfully arrest climate change and address inequality, we must transform our transportation system.
The Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) has certified more than four million square feet of projects, most of them in the last five years. Virginia is home to 20 of them.
Securing cleaner energy production is one side of the coin. Mitigating the impact of climate change is the other.
Through Charles Duff’s lively prose and 180+ pictures, we watch as the North Atlantic cities grow, become beautiful, and invent many of the things we take for granted today: parks, mass transit, downtowns, even suburbia.
As architects, we bear a big responsibility in setting the direction of a project from the beginning. And, as architects, I think we bear a big responsibility to carry the message forward about environmental stewardship, which begins with climate action.
