View From Your Ivory Tower #8
One reader who correctly guesses the campus on which this photograph was taken will win a one-year subscription to our print magazine. Also, get the answer from last week's contest.
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View From Your Ivory Tower #5
One reader who correctly guesses the campus on which this photograph was taken will win a one-year subscription to our print magazine. Also, get the answer from last week's contest.
Unkind Architecture: Designing Against the Homeless
A subset of architecture is actively antagonist to the comfort of the homeless.
A Guy Walks Into a Bathroom…
Surprisingly, there are more than a few studies on bathroom psychology. Rick Paulas takes a look at his own.
How Prison Architecture Can Transform Inmates’ Lives
More open layouts can improve inmate-guard relations and support a culture of progress rather than fear.
After Sandy Hook, Must Our Schools Look Like Stockades?
A year after the Newtown school massacre, architects assure us that safe schools don't have to look and feel like bunkers. But they also note that facilities can only go so far in providing security in a violent world.
Perhaps Archimedes Should Have Focused on Jaguars, Not Galleys
Solar concentrators are a hot weapon in the renewable energy arsenal. Except sometimes they really can be a weapon.
Do (Cheap) Mid-Century Schoolhouses Worsen Disasters Like the Moore Tornado?
At least seven children died in Oklahoma this past week when two elementary schools were destroyed. Is shoddy construction to blame?
Why Is China Stealing Cities, Towns, and Buildings?
We don't really know, but if anybody does, it's Phil Thompson.
