The world today is supersaturated with terms, brands, and names that define sustainability. In fact, this author sometimes forgets what words like sustainability, environment, and green even mean. Amidst a cultural movement in which an entirely new dictionary of terms has emerged to create an entirely confusing discourse, it seems the terms themselves have existed... [Read more...]

A recent article in the New York Times by design critic Alice Rawsthorn, Debating Sustainability, posed some interesting questions about sustainable design: "What exactly is sustainable design? What constitutes success? And failure? On what criteria? Different designers may well give very different answers to all of those questions, and more." The questions... [Read more...]

As we usher in not only 2010 but a new decade, we wanted to share one architect’s predictions from this article in the Washington Post regarding how we will design/build over the course of the next 10 years. A few speculations by University of Maryland professor of architecture Roger K. Lewis we’d like to share: Architecture of all types will embrace... [Read more...]