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 …
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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 …
Strada names Sean Beasley as next Principal
As Strada’s projects continue to multiply and flourish, its leadership is expanding and adapting. We are delighted to announce that the firm’s newest partner is Sean Beasley, AIA, LEED AP …
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 …
Early encounters with urban design
Last Wednesday, the lunch room in Strada’s Pittsburgh office was alive with the sounds of teenagers negotiating. Not our newest recruits (yet), but participants in the ACE Mentoring Program, working …
Schenley High School Re-Envisioned
An isosceles triangle in plan, the monumental Schenley High School opened in 1916 at the edge of the Oakland neighborhood. The school functioned for nearly a century until closed down …
Inside a mid-century classic, glimpses of our Pittsburgh office
Strada’s Pittsburgh office has been in the former Alcoa building for a year and a half now. This distinctive modernist skyscraper (completed in 1953) has offered us plenty of design …
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 …
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 …
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 …
