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 …
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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 …
Learning from the past with the Victorian Society in America
A founding principal of Strada, John Martine, AIA, is a highly respected preservationist, recognized for preserving the historical fabric and at the same time, drawing upon the past in developing …
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 …
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 …
Bakery Living I wins a Best in American Living Award
Strada is delighted to announce that Bakery Living I, the lively new residential building it designed in Pittsburgh’s East End, received a Best in American Living Award (BALA) from the …
Reflections from the Tour de France
I recently had a chance with my family to travel to the south of France for the last four stages of the Tour de France. It was in a region …
