Architecture columns from respected writers such as Joel Solkoff in the USA for e-architect – architectural thinking, articles about current building issues and built environment challenges.
A new US capital city and my coronavirus experience. Consider the Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) the most important government agency involved with the coronavirus pandemic in the US. The Department is not simply a building
Renzo Piano, architectural criticism and global pandemic. Visiting Renzo Piano’s J.P. Morgan library and museum renewal marked my transition from disability rights advocate to architecture critic
Mandarin translation – architects today must be COVID-19 architects: no new housing – impact of Donald Trump’s 2020 HUD Budget. The White House proposes over $9 billion in cuts to critical housing programs
All Architects Today Must Be Covid-19 Architects: no new housing – impact of Trump 2020 HUD Budget. The White House proposes over $9 billion in cuts to critical housing programs
Architects, I regard myself as a refugee from rural Pennsylvania, currently 19th fastest growing hot spot in United States of America. President Elect Biden will return the USA to the WHO
President Biden Architecture: Joel flees to NYC to escape the Third Wave. “no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be…one person can make a difference in the world.”
Architecture under the Biden Presidency. Despite fears of violence and foreign interference, over 100 million US Americans cast their votes safely and without significant problems in the midst of our worst health crisis in over 100 years.
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for a new architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable. Joel Solkoff’s report – Mandarin translation – on the obligation of architects to respond to Coronavirus
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for a new utilitarian architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable. Joel Solkoff’s report on the obligation of architects to respond to the exigencies of Coronavirus
Attention Architects: US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket, You Must Build Housing for the Poor. Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 3 – report on the obligation of architects to respond to the exigencies of the Corona virus comes in two parts.
US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket, You Must Build Housing for the Poor. Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 3 manually translated into Mandarin – report on the obligation of architects to respond to Coronavirus pandemic
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 1, reporting on Queens Public Library at Hunters Point, New York City, by Steven Holl Architects, USA. Disabled people struggle to access books and reference materials in the $41.5 million building.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, defendant in the Queens library disability-rights law suit which he will lose. For five years, Mayor de Blasio served ex officio on the Board of Trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library which planned and oversaw the Hunters Point project.
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 1: Mayor Gabriel Campana of Williamsport PA meets e-architect’s US Editor. In 1870, the city had more millionaires per capita than anyplace on earth.
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 1: welcome to the US Editorial Offices of e-architect in Williamsport PA. In 1870, the city had more millionaires per capita than anyplace on earth.
Joel’s Column Vol. IV, Number 2: How a 1924 Arthur Cleveland Nash Architectural Masterpiece in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, transmogrifies into an e-architect exclusive.
Joel’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1: President Obama announces architects to design his Presidential Library in Illinois, not “the land of Lincoln”; plus preparing for Zaha Hadid’s eulogy.
“If, in all the different action movies, there was an architect superhero – first of all, he would do the things that Renzo Piano does. Second of all, his name would inevitably be Renzo Piano” remarked Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art.