What if South Station was in Fort Point Channel?
The studio: The 2012 post-professional studio at the Yale School of Architecture, co-taught by Ed Mitchell, Fred Koetter and Aniket Shahane, examines a series of contiguous developer parcels in...
View ArticleEMBRACING A SHIFT: BOSTON AS THE CITY OF THE FUTURE
A Letter From the Editor It has been four years since I set SHIFTboston in motion and during a half-decade of exploration – together - we have challenged ourselves and our city to adopt a new way...
View ArticleFloatyard – housing for hurricane prone areas.
How would you solve the problem of creating housing in areas that are susceptible to hurricanes? Design firm Perkins+Will recently submitted a design that won a 2013 P/A Award. Their design proposes a...
View ArticleHow about Printing Buildings?
The Additive Manufacturing and/or 3D Printing process is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry by allowing any size company, or individual in many cases, to manufacture quickly, locally and with...
View ArticleImagine the impact women could make on the built world if there were more of us?
Forbes Magazine’s recent release ‘The Worlds Most Powerful Woman of 2013′ has inspired me to think big……imagine the impact women could make on the built world if there were more females in...
View Articlefloatyard: it takes a good story to make an idea valuable
When you see an exciting idea do you ever look beneath the surface to find the story behind it? If we were able to examine the actual process that gave birth to the idea, we would find layer upon...
View ArticleWorking Side by Side to Help Rural Rwanda: The Masaro Project by the GA...
This captivating story landed in my mailbox two weeks ago from Michael Beaman of the GA Collaborative – a non profit organization composed of designers and educators from Syracuse, Harvard and RISD –...
View ArticleUndulated Inundation by Anthony DiMari
Anthony DiMari, one of my most inspired contributors, a true visionary, two-time SHIFTboston competition finalist, and graduate from the Harvard GSD has just completed ‘Undulated Inundation’ a...
View ArticleSpeak! Listen! Act!
Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH From September 20 through November 13, 2016, the Strauss Gallery presents Speak! Listen! Act! A kaleidoscope of architectural...
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