On behalf of RUDC I will be participating in the following Convention Sessions:
SESSION CODE: TH405 | TITLE: Smart Digital Eco-Cities in the 21st Century: Resilient, Sustainable, Livable
ROOM: Room 120
SESSION CODE: FR405 | TITLE: Influencing Decision Making in Local Communities: Tips for Small Firms
ROOM: Room 109
See you tonight (Wednesday) at the EV 102, a welcome party by the Knowledge Communities (6-8pm)
The Changing Design of Urban Housing
Last week I reviewed student projects at the local architecture department. One half of the projects dealt with a dis-invested African American community in Baltimore with most of the design task involving housing. The other half of the projects were part of a design competition in an African American community in Los Angeles. The second program was a museum and a community center.
The students with the civic project designed interesting structures and created existing places in the community. The ones with the residences, not so much. Essentially, they recycled rowhouses and apartment buildings of a kind that would have looked outdated and unimaginative in the seventies and eighties of the last century. Brick walls with small punched out windows, double loaded corridors, surface parking, more attention to traffic than to floor plans and elevations.
Gehry New York
What happened here? A colleague who was with me on the jury observed afterwards, "designing residential architecture is difficult." As one who has done townhomes, highrises, affordable apartments, luxury condos, renovations and new construction, I have never thought of it that way, but on second thought, I have to agree.
The students may have been stumped... Read full article by clicking below:
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Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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