Green design superstars? In a review of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s exhibition Design for the Other 90%, Christopher Hawthorne posits that the sustainable design movement needs some young superstar designers. He acknowledges that the products and solutions on display are quite good but argues that the movement needs its Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid.
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This week I attended the Environmental Design Research Association Conference in beautiful Sacramento. EDRA is a professional organization for anyone who works to improve the physical environment for people. At the meeting architects, planners, interior designers and researchers discuss how to make the places we live, work, and play more comfortable and sustainable. Thursday [...]

I love this article from The New York Times Magazine about 200-year-old houses. An excerpt:
If by “green architecture” we mean buildings designed to exist in harmony with environmental conditions, to conserve fuel and regulate temperature by “natural” means, then it is easy to forget that this did not begin with the invention of [...]

Container residence (and photo) by LOT-EK

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the comments of this post at Inhabitat and at Archinect about repurposing shipping containers as housing construction materials. Some folks find the resulting homes ugly; others suspect they’re unsustainable. You can learn about other container projects at Brand Avenue. [...]