Future Architects of the Middle East (F.A.M.E) is excited to annouce the release of their publication, Mashrabiya 01 Icon. In architecture, the word “icon” is synonymous with monumental buildings as tangible representations of a time, a feeling, a nation, and a people. And yet, to speak of iconic architecture in the Middle East creates particular
Gonzalo J. Lopez, adjunct associate professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and cofounder of KnitKnot architecture, has recently published “Radical Geography and Advocacy Mapping: The Case of the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (1968–1972)” in the Journal of Planning History. The article explores the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (DGEI), a
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges, by CCNY Associate Professor and Architecture Department Chair June Williamson and her longtime collaborator Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech, was published in late January (Wiley). The next book in the groundbreaking Retrofitting Suburbia series, it presents 32 new case studies documenting successful retrofits
Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design edited by Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, and Marcella Del Signore, published by Routledge. The book presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design strategies, and their relationship to an array of outputs. It includes a wide
PLOT is the annual landscape journal edited by the graduate landscape architecture students of the Spitzer School of Architecture. The ninth volume examines “Top Down Bottom Up” — terms used in a variety of fields to describe strategies of knowledge ordering and information processing. These expressions have shifted from conceptual use in scientific and humanistic
“Letters from Home” is the second issue of the recently relaunched student publication, informality, which is based on the work, experiences, concepts, and the raw process of the undergraduate class. We wrote letters . . . about spaces . . . and about places . . . with people . . . with feelings .