Since 2007 (because it's an addiction)
Assistant Professor of Interior Design Shauna Corry wanted to show us that place is important to the creation of culture and society, so she had us do this exercise: She named a place and we had about a billionth of a second to draw the first thing that came to mind. “Egypt.” I drew a [...]
Professor Ken Carper delivered a whirlwind lecture covering the many aspects of designing with technology, indeed, he says, everything that has been made has been done so using technology. He points out that technology resolves the conflict between man and nature. We do not live out in the wilderness thinking that everything is peachy keen. [...]
Professor of Architecture Paul Windley, seeking the motives of elderly who were eager to get into an assisted-living facility, interviewed scores of people to find out why. The answer, by and large, is bad architecture. It makes sense, doesn’t it, that architecture should be tailored to the needs of the people who actually use these [...]
Interior Design Program Director Rula Awwad-Rafferty brought a much-needed perspective to our class of future architects. In our protective cocoon of affluence, many of us do not realize — or appreciate — the fact that most of the world’s population lives very differently than we do. Regarde: Since most of the population is “not like [...]
I’ve been a long-time critic of suburbia and its long-distance methods of egress. Anytime a suburbanite wishes to leave its labyrinthine streets, the very design of suburbia forces people to make a choice: 1. Spend a really long time walking or biking through curvy street after curvy street permeated with an eery Stepford feeling, full [...]
We started off the semester with a discourse on the four traditions of architecture design. They are: 1. The vernacular tradition, which is environmentally-friendly; 2. The high style tradition, which is nice if you’re rich; 3. The speculative tradition, which is the bastard son of capitalism; and 4. Participatory design, which is not yet a [...]
I care about the environment. One of the ways this concern manifests itself is my predilection for riding my bike to work. Did I mention I live in LA? For me, riding my bike to work means fearing for my life. It means slowing before every alleyway, every blind driveway, every strip mall curb cut, [...]
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