Architecture columns from respected writers such as the great, late Joel Solkoff in the USA for e-architect – architectural thinking, articles about current building issues and built environment challenges.
Joel Solkoff (1947 – 2022)
Sadly he passed away on May 3, 2022 in his local Williamsport hospital, Pennsylvania, USA. He was passionate about architecture, especially disability rights and affordable housing.
He was a thinker, and for sure we need more of those in this world. He was born in New York City. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and was a graduate student from Penn State’s Rehabilitation Counseling program.
He started writing for us with a series of columns on Renzo Piano’s Morgan Museum and Library in New York City. He praised this Manhattan building for its good access.
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.
Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney, New York Building, Architecture, Architect, News Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney Gallery in Manhattan, NYC, USA – article: Joel Solkoff, PA, USA 9 Jul 2015 Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney in New York Article by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Joel’s Column Vol. III, Number 4 Photograph of Renzo … Read more
Today’s Detroit column begins in New York City with Detroit on my mind—always on my mind. I have a friend who had the opportunity to purchase a house in the Meatpacking District of New York City.
Ongoing Special Report on the benefits Detroit may offer Baby Boomers. Detroit will survive because it is next door to an airport flying more passengers non-stop between the U.S. and Asia than any other airport.
Joel Solkoff’s Column Volume II No. 6: architectural column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA – United States architecture, Wyoming, new cities and communities
Is Detroit Dying? A special report. Last autumn, a group of Chinese real estate developers arrived in downtown Detroit for a city tour – they were impressed by what they saw
Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each and every place, and especially of the city in which we live