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Is This Chalet Really an Antoni Gaudí?

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (401+ words) Gaud" was certainly involved in the design of Xalet del Catllar's (built 19011908), located just outside the town of La Pobla de Lillet. During the early 1900s, he was busy in the area creating housing for workers in factories owned by his…...

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Architecture’s Awkward Embrace of Artificial Intelligence

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (477+ words) By Martin C. Pedersen After talking to a number of people about AI and the future of architecture, experts who've spent considerable time pondering the uncertainties, the famous quote from the great screenwriter William Goldman came to mind: "Nobody knows anything....

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Architects Will Not Be Replaced by Artificial Intelligence

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (123+ words) By Chad D. Reineke While environmental performance can be modeled with increasing precision, the experiential quality of a public space or the cultural resonance of a civic building cannot be captured fully within a performance dashboard. Featured image created by the…...

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The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (167+ words) By Mark Alan Hewitt From 1955 to 1985, American universities built architectural programs into their curricula at a rate not seen before or since. The U.S. was leading the world in erecting buildings in cities and creating suburbs virtually everywhere. A few of…...

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What Exactly Does It Mean to Be an “AI-Powered” Architecture Firm?

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (815+ words) By Martin C. Pedersen MCP: Martin C. Pedersen PC: Patrick Chopson Give me a brief background on the firm. Cove describes itself as an "AI-powered firm." What does that mean in practical terms? How does AI avoid that? The most important thing…...

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How Home Design Can Break the Housing Crisis

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (500+ words) I know this because I have helped build cheaper custom homes every day for the last 40 years. Even though my architectural fees are over 5% of the building cost, people continue to use my firm's services because, unlike the builders, land…...

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commonedge.org > trumps-monumental-legacy-theft

Trump’s Monumental Legacy Theft

2+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (647+ words) By Doug Fast, Peter Katz With Donald Trump's name now affixed to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the question naturally arises: What comes next in the president's accelerating effort to fuse his brand with America's most hallowed…...

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Some of a Good Thing: The Legacy of Frank Gehry

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (200+ words) And despite his works" global presence, he is also of a place, Los Angeles, which is why he has left such a big void there. Outwardly, it seems like only Los Angeles, with its identity driven by images and stars,…...

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As Disney Hall Showed, Frank Gehry’s Los Angeles Was Urban, but Not Urbanist

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (404+ words) To be honest, I never really believed that the Walt Disney Concert Hall would ever actually get built. It was the most important major architectural icon in Los Angeles designed by starchitect Frank Gehry, who died earlier this month." Good…...

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commonedge.org > the-department-of-education-has-classified-architects-as-non-professional-why-this-matters

The Department of Education Has Classified Architects as “Non-Professional.” Why This Matters.

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (90+ words) By Michael J. Crosbie Featured image via WorkBC. Michael J. Crosbie is a Connecticut-based architect and writer who teaches at the University of Hartford and is Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor. The author of and contributor to some four-score…...