This blog seeks to expand off of several topics developed from a 2014 Master's Thesis on Applicable Building Sustainability. The first part seeks to compile topics that
might actually fit into the overall narrative centered around my own personal
research topics. The other half is to continue to be a
writer-critic, and to actively engage upon larger discussions, to discover what
role our profession can continue to have to the larger world. Like Lewis Mumford, or Ada Louise Huxtable before us, we must
keep pressing important societal issues, be vocal, and continue to critical of the world around
us, if we wish to inspire positive change.
This blog will NOT be about 'sensationalist design' (i.e., selling snakeoil): it will instead focus on EVIDENCE Based Design - design that has a background we can build upon, rather than fanciful ideation. Skyscrapers, as a typology understandably get bad rap's (though sometimes good), when viewed through certain lenses or pedestrian perspectives. With new skyscrapers picking up all over the world, this topic has the direct possibility to effect the lives of millions of people in the coming generations. With luck, these approaches can begin to shift, in the light of modern technological and sustainable developments.
This blog will NOT be about 'sensationalist design' (i.e., selling snakeoil): it will instead focus on EVIDENCE Based Design - design that has a background we can build upon, rather than fanciful ideation. Skyscrapers, as a typology understandably get bad rap's (though sometimes good), when viewed through certain lenses or pedestrian perspectives. With new skyscrapers picking up all over the world, this topic has the direct possibility to effect the lives of millions of people in the coming generations. With luck, these approaches can begin to shift, in the light of modern technological and sustainable developments.
As usual from an architecture grad working on professional writings (and still eking out a living in the city), time always seems to get away from me. After hemming and hawing for far too long, I’ve decided to mixup the blog portion of this site………and actually, maybe, perhaps, write something for a change! So its time, to officially kickoff something new.
While the other blog will continue to focus
soley on Detroit, the writings of this blog (and blog itself) will grow from a smattering of ideas, perhaps into something more. Hopefully, into a more 'research oriented' basis by which to catalog and further develop ideas. Maybe, just a fun place to ramble on Monday nights.
But with that said, onwards………and upwards.
The author
also wishes to thank Lawrence Tech Thesis Advisors Ed Orlowski, Ralph Nelson, Margaret Wong
(along with critics Martin Scwartz, Philip Plowright, and Danielle O’mara,) for
their feedback, discussions and initial dissections of the aforementioned topics: without
your kindness and gravitas, this blog would not be a reality.
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