Don’t Waste – Donate!
Conversations about sustainability and environmental stewardship in relation to architecture, design, and construction typically lead to the hot topic of waste management and the nearly 500 million tons of Construction …
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The Integrated Design Practice
As a landscape architect, I tend to think in ecosystems. Ecosystems are systems comprised of interacting parts (for example: trees, water, animals, insects) that support a whole (in this example …
The Craft of Story Building
At a playwriting workshop recently, a fellow writer said, “Sometimes you create, sometimes you produce.” I knew what she meant. In writing fiction, be it in narrative form or for …
A fresh patch on Lawrenceville’s collage
Arsenal 201 is not the first development slated to transform a former industrial site in Pittsburgh. It won’t be the first exciting new place to live in Lawrenceville, and it’s …
Promoting disruptive innovation for social change in the mountains of West Virginia
Strada recently celebrated the opening of Evansdale Crossing, a five-story, 100,000-SF mixed-use social hub that is interspersed with academic spaces on West Virginia University’s Evansdale campus. Strategically located at the …
Learning by Doing: Designing Active Learning Spaces
For the first time in decades, schools from elementary through higher education are dramatically changing the way they teach. Acknowledging the limitations of the traditional classroom, they are embracing new …
Hacking the Gender Gap
One of my favorite things about being an architect is the opportunity to meet interesting people. It is also a part of my job to learn about them, about the …
Surprises and Challenges
Having worked at a few professional services firms, I find the work at Strada entails a unique difference from all of the others—at Strada, surprises are good things. And along …
How design is like quantum physics?
I doubt that architecture and quantum physics have ever been considered in the same sentence, but I’ll argue that they are different perspectives on the same problem. Some background In …
PlaceMapping for resilience in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
I recently had the pleasure of spending a week in the company of some really smart ULI colleagues working on an Advisory Panel in St. Tammany Parish (the equivalent of …
