Tag: new economy
2011 – The (new) Manifesto
*a work in progress* I’m stating the obvious I know, but this has been a really difficult few years for the practice of architecture. Thankfully, things have really stabilized and thanks to that I have had a chance now to sit back and review past successes and failures. And the […]
Upcycle Living – Phoenix, AZ
Here is a great local company that I really like. These containers are inevitably not reused because it is cheaper to build new ones than to ship them back, and they are great frames for construction. I bet solutions like this this end up factoring in to part of the […]
“Revolution, baby.”
As I am working up a plan to try and salvage a large-scale residential project by taking a more in-depth look at the pro-forma (no small feat considering how land and housing prices have changed), I am reminded of the design successes we had on a similar project in Tempe […]
Design in the New Economy
This is a link to a great series of entries, and very timely as I am looking for lots of inspiration about how to manage and respond to what seems to be an ever-increasing pace of change in my practice. http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/jennifer-bove