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Housing’s Critical Position for the Future of Cities

Posted by Jason Montgomery on 2024-07-03

View of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fabric with Infill Housing Spatially Integrating the Farragut Housing Towers (indicated with brown roofs). By AuthorFor much of the 20th century, the image of cities was defined by the skyline of corporate office towers. The disruption of the pandemic, however, has reduced the demand for new office towers and dampened their allure as the image of the city. At the same [...]

On the Problems of Embodiment in Architecture

Posted by Sean Griffiths on 2024-05-16

Embodiment plays a prominent role in current architectural discourse. Linking different strands of architectural thinking, informed by New Materialism, Post-humanism and phenomenology, proponents of embodiment are motivated by a desire to overcome various Enlightenment dualisms which are deemed to be implicated in oppressive structures like colonialism, patriarchy, and human domination of the [...]