Editor’s blog

  • Half full, NOT half empty

    January 13, 2010 | Bruce N. Wright
    This past year was tough on everyone. The good thing is, we can always improve. Read more…

  • The numbers game

    November 9, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Finding meaning in life’s numbers and steady changes—most for the better Read more…

  • Abseiling, seiling, over the bounding…

    November 2, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Tensioned fabric architecture has a wealth of unique words to discover, and like many new professions or technologies, the terminology is adapted from older technologies. Read more…

  • Shed-ing some light

    October 21, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    New York is the largest city in North America and, despite tight economic times, the country’s most rapidly changing city with steady development and reconstruction occurring throughout the metropolitan area. Read more…

  • Winterizing the sauna

    October 12, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Found this interesting project on the international design and architecture portal called Architonic of a membrane-clad floating pool and sauna in Berlin. Read more…

  • Pretty in pink

    September 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    It has been four years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in a crippling blow. Much has been written about the aftermath of the destruction and of the painfully slow rebuilding process. One of the more visible efforts to help reestablish a community in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans (arguably the most devastated neighborhood of the city) has been movie actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right (MIR) initiative. Read more…

  • Reduce, reuse, recycle — 20% off

    July 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    As the media struggle in the faltering economy, we hear pundits predicting the demise of newspapers, magazines and other print media, as well as of TV shows being canceled for lack of sponsors. It’s hard to be positive when not only the advertising dwindles, but also the architecture and landscape architecture firms that are the target of the advertising dwindle. Opportunities do arise, however, under all circumstances. New mediums create new places for messages and new ideas to be disseminated. Read more…

  • Sunny day

    May 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    In addition to recent talk in the current down cycle about making our automobiles smaller and greener as the world economy forces all automobile manufacturers to reassess their future, architects have acknowledged the equally important need for designing energy miserly buildings to sustain future design possibilities. Read more…

  • The view from 384,560 km

    March 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    As the Eames’ camera pulls back from the image of the earth at a rate of a kilometer per second, we soon discover (in less than a minute!) how relatively insignificant the earth really is in relation to our galaxy, the universe and everything. Read more…

  • Greening the tree

    January 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    The publisher’s “pyramid of green” concept, based on the food pyramid, helps people make choices to improve the energy performance of their houses. It’s a good, although possibly simplistic, idea. Read more…