e-architect

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Tours
  • Architecture
    • Architecture News – World Buildings
    • Buildings by Country
    • Buildings by City
  • Architects
    • Architects by country
    • Architects by city
    • Architects alphabetical
  • Competitions
  • Events
    • Building Events
  • Products
    • Architecture Design
  • Jobs
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Contact Us
  • Site Map

Columns buildings design

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.

Home > Columns buildings design

official residence of Vice Presudent of the United States Kamala Harris

A new US capital city and my coronavirus experience

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

March 24, 2021 in Columns buildings design.
Morgan Library and Museum entrance by Renzo Piano architect

Renzo Piano architectural criticism and the pandemic

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

January 22, 2021 in Columns buildings design.
Trump International luxury hotel and apartment condominium complex Columbus Circle

Architects Must Be Covid-19 Architects

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

January 21, 2021 in Columns buildings design.
US map United States of America

All Architects Must Be Covid-19 Architects

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

January 3, 2021 in Columns buildings design.
Greek Revival style building designed by architects Town and Davis

Architects: Keep Georgia on your mind

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

January 3, 2021 in Columns buildings design.
Hunters Point Library Queens New York City

Architecture under President Biden

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.”

December 31, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania suburban housing USA

Architecture under Biden Presidency News

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.

November 13, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
Radio Tower Hotel NYC

COVID-19 demands new architecture: Mandarin

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

October 21, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
House in Durham, North Carolina

COVID-19 demands new utilitarian architecture

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

September 5, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket

US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket: Housing

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.

June 20, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket

US COVID-19 Deaths: Mandarin Article

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

June 12, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
Hunters Point Library New York building

Volume VI Number 1 Column: Hunters Point scandal

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.

March 7, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
Hunters Point Library Steven Holl Architects building ampitheatre

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Queens Library

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.

March 6, 2020 in Columns buildings design.
External signage on facade of the Pajama Factory, Williamsport PA.

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 2

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.

March 19, 2019 in Columns buildings design.
High Meadow Studio at Fallingwater Pennsylvania

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA: Joel Solkoff

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.

March 11, 2019 in Columns buildings design.
The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. IV, Number 2

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.

August 11, 2016 in Columns buildings design.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1

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.

July 18, 2016 in Columns buildings design.
520 West 28 Street New York City building

Piano’s Whitney Neighborhood, New York City

“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.

November 22, 2015 in Columns buildings design.

Post navigation

← Older posts

architecture walking tours

Follow Us:


facebook twitter pinterest instagram

Architects Tours | Privacy Policy