Sangath, Balkrishna Doshi's home base Balkrishna “B.V.” Doshi, 2018 Pritzker Prize winner, died last month at the age of 95. I was extremely fortunate to spend time at Sangath, Doshi’s design and urban studies sanctuary, as part of a year-long travel fellowship

EVERYBODY'S FAULT: Inhabiting the Quake The pandemic has challenged the separation of work and home to a remarkable degree, exposing fissures in age-old assumptions at multiple scales, from daily routines to urban planning. Multi-family housing offers a way into the current

A letter to the editor of Fine Homebuilding Magazine in response to the David Hornstein's article, "Are 2D Drawings Obsolete for Homebuilding?" I appreciated David Hornstein’s BuildingMatters perspective in his article, “Are 2D drawings obsolete?” I have worked as an architect

Katerra, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup, is shutting down after a six-year run and over $2 billion in investments. This was the company that was going to revolutionize the building industry. It was going to do everything; Katerra would be

Cliff Top House, Sao Paolo, Brazil The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha died on May 23 at the age of 92. PMdR  (as he is abbreviated) inhabited an important place within Brazil's architectural continuum, which begins at modernity, charged with

This is a big deal in marketing circles. As you scout for Studio Combine clients, here’s what to look for: 1) nice (or nice-ish) people you get along with 2) curious people who think about the everyday  3) patient people with ants in their

Today was my Iowa State studio's final review; an urban design project set in Des Moines' Sherman Hill District. Studio projects are always a wild ride and never more so than in the Covid era. One the amazing benefits of