Editor’s Desk

How Charitable Giving Can Impact You, Your Firm, & Your Community Giving back doesn’t have to be something that’s only

Let’s Go Back to Work Rewind to a couple years ago and I never thought I’d be writing this, but

The Resiliency of the Architecture Industry As we shift from pandemic to endemic, from remote working to shared offices, from

Celebrating & Uplifting Women in the Design Industry Louise Blanchard Bethune was the first American woman known to have worked

Does New Ordinance Level the Playing Field or Bulldoze Your Rights? East Palo Alto, California, has a divisive ordinance on

Closed Ports, High Tariffs, & Labor Shortage Causing Supply Chain Issues It started with lumber.  The price of this commodity

Fixing the Present & Preparing for the Future Where I live, you can’t go more than a mile without seeing

Investigate How Your Work Will Impact the World President Biden has pledged to invest $2 trillion in America’s infrastructure over

Sustainable, Equitable Design Can Save the World Buildings currently contribute about 40% of the carbon that is warming our climate

The Difference in the Level of Consumer Education is Debated While attending a luncheon the other day, the subject of

New Legislation Targets CEOs in San Francisco, California Voters in San Francisco, California, recently passed a wealth tax, or as

Adapting & Redesigning the Cement Industry to Combat Climate Change Aside from water, concrete is the most ubiquitous material used

Advancing Racial & Gender Justice in Architecture In 1971, 12 black architects in Detroit, Michigan, formed the National Organization of

Should Government Buildings Only Employ Classical Architecture? Do you have a really ugly building in your town?  I mean, so

How a Pandemic Has Pushed the Architecture Industry The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in many plans for

How Space & Society Interact Spatial justice is a relatively new term in urban planning and design, having been coined

Eco-Friendly Wood Building Design I challenge you to name a city that isn’t experiencing growth right now.  The construction industry

A Century-Old Utopian Idea Gets Traction in Contemporary Design At the turn of the 20th century, on the heels of

Using Sustainable Architecture to Counteract the Olympic Kiss of Death For many cities, it is a dream to be chosen

The Next Big Thing These days, you can hardly open a magazine or turn on the news without hearing about

How Technology of the Future Can Help Restore the Past The devastating fire that ravaged the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris,

Impressive Growth for the Construction Industry in 2019 A recent Gallup® poll showed that 50% of those surveyed said they

Denser Communities On the Rise I live in a city that is on the cusp on being recognized as a