CITE 80

urbanism. walkability. social change. These are the themes of the latest Cite magazine released by the Rice Design Alliance entitled “Houstopia 2035”. If there one dominating topic in the architecture realm of the United States as of late it would …

ARCHITECTURE + MORALITY

Sean Griffiths, founder of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), at a lecture tonight argued that architecture no longer serves to its people the kind of moral attitudes that it once did with baroque or gothic structures. Those structures were to help …

TURBINES

B&Q is a British hardware store similar to Home Depot in the United States. In October of 2006 they began to sell wind turbines that consumers could purchase and install on their homes that would help produce energy and, in …

LIVING CITIES

“We view the landscape much as the Victorians viewed women: as either saints or whores. If an open space is green, it is considered a saint. If it is built, concreted or asphalted, it is a whore.” – Martha Schwartz, …

POST VISIT: LA TOURETTE

The approach to La Tourette is very interesting and different than that of Ronchamp. With Ronchamp, you see the chapel first from far away perched up on the hill. You then loose the sight of it as you approach the …