Month: September 2014

  • Dead Letter Office

    To speak of “live” projects is also to acknowledge the presence of “dead” projects, those for whom there is no client and at the end of which there is no plan to implement or full-scale project to occupy. The dead project is severed from implementation and/or actualization, disconnected from productive processes, and often lands in…

  • Ends and Means: Inquiries Into the Role of the Solar Decathlon in Architectural Education

    If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Architectural education often perpetuates a feud between the mind and the hand.  To one side we find…