The Goodspeed Update

Last January I was a member of a student team at the University of Maryland that entered the Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Interdisciplinary teams of students were given two weeks to create a master land use plan and proposed ten-block development for a neighborhood just south of downtown Dallas, […]

“The principle of organic economy was too essential to the functioning of the society not to affect ethics and aesthetics profoundly.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, from the novel The Dispossessed
Architectural sustainability, or the green building movement, is dominated by concern with buildings energy efficiency and use of sustainable materials. Left largely undiscussed is the question […]