Tag: Flexible Buildings

Since discovering Yona Friedman and his Ville Spatiale while writing my senior project in college I've been inspired his tireless advocacy of flexible human-centric environments. In this interview, filmed in his 96th year, he makes the case again for a new architectural approach centered on continual process and transformability. Many of his best known projects … Continue reading Yona Friedman on Transformable Architecture

I'm drawn to building types that are flexible, developed incrementally and unitary in design. The American Dogtrot house as a historical style carries these attributes and I think it is worth exploring for the straightforward design and performance features it offers. The style has transcended frontier utilitarianism, recently becoming a framing device for embracing the … Continue reading Dogtrot

Model of the Segal System from an exhibit at the Architectural Association in London, 2016 I'm much more interested in building systems than in individual buildings. In part because a building system provides a kind of architectural source code. This coded understanding of how a building is constructed serves as a road map for the … Continue reading The Segal Method

Some notes in progress about the building we are living in after our rushed urban exit from Brooklyn on March 17th, 2020, during this "great pause" and time of social distancing. I used to visit this place with my Dad when it was a book store years ago. Now we are living in the floors … Continue reading The Halcyon Lodge

New York City's Javits Center transformed into a 1,200-bed field hospital I just read an interview with Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley about their new book on the architecture and history of quarantine, coincidentally due out in time for this current pandemic. Following on a Storefront for Art and Architecture show that opened 10 years … Continue reading Quarantine Transformation