Parking Design By Lawrence Scarpa Without parking structures, cars would sprawl across the landscapes of our cities worldwide. For more than 100 years, such “garages” have provided an engineered solution to the problem of long-term parking, freeing on-street spaces for short-term users. The first garages appeared much like any other conventionally enclosed building because early [&hellip
More »1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? Guardian Parking is a covered parking lot in a redeveloping urban area of the midwest United States. People are moving back to the cities. People want to walk. But the economics [&hellip
More »1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? The car park in Coesfeld-Lette is mainly used by female employees of the company “Ersting’s family”. The client asked specifically for a building with a friendly and light atmosphere and no [&hellip
More »1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? Parking garages are mostly utilitarian in nature and typically not the type of building project that creates a lot of excitement amongst designers and architects. The results are mostly concrete structure [&hellip
More »1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? The importance of Craftmanship and the ‘art of making’ is getting more and more important in recent years. Our office is particularly interested in modern and contemporary production techniques to obtain [&hellip
More »
1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? Traditionally, parking structures have been viewed as very utilitarian building types, contributing little aesthetically to the urban landscape or environmental sustainability. As part of a natural science museum and research center, [&hellip
More »1. How have trends or evolutions in the design process, technological advancements, and/or societal issues inspired new thought and solutions for this building type? Alternatives to traditional public schools are transforming public education so that students are prepared for college, leadership, and life. In addition, they help parents organize and demand more of their neighborhood [&hellip
More »Architype Dialogue presents Richard Francis-Jones Architect behind the 2013 World Building of the Year Award-winning building, the Auckland Art Gallery. Please tell us anything you’d like us to know about the gallery or your award before we begin. Public buildings are important and they should state their significance in a city which is otherwise dominated [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Susan Jones What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Most powerful for us in working on religious buildings is the emotional context in which they are conceived, designed, funded and built. [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Paolino Di Vece Roux What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? According to Pythagoras “this world is false and illusive, a turbid medium in which the rays of heavenly light are [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Zermani Associati What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The notion of spirituality,escaping the liturgical boundaries, has climbed over the walls of the buildings in order to travel and free itself [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents NOMENA Arquitectos What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? To make a building capable of orchestrating an experience that makes man aware of the divine beyond any particular religious belief. In [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Robert Hull What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Interestingly, the most unexpected requirement from the church related to seating. The church already had a traditional chapel with a center aisle [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Diego Quadrelli What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The real challenge for us was to built a Chapel able to mix the Italian style with the Central Africa culture, but [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Eduardo Fernandez What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? La construcción de un edificio religioso plantea el reto de intentar definir con los medios habituales de la arquitectura un espacio de [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Gustavo Penna What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? I didn’t want to face this theme as a difficulty, I just looked at it the most natural way possible. My thoughts [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Philip Thalis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Like many cities, Sydney is dotted with disused, dilapidated or mutilated former theatres. How to adapt such buildings while respecting their fabric and [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki & David J. Lewis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The Arthouse project required us to consider the full trajectory of a building’s history to be more important than [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Tim Greer What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Inherited buildings or artefacts have an associated consciousness and memory, formed by years of existence. Keeping this in play, is one of one of [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Morris Adjmi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The most difficult issue in a building like this one, which was loaded with unique architectural details from turn-of-the-century industrial Brooklyn, was knowing [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Marcy Wong & Donn Logan What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? When a building is subject to the jurisdiction of numerous agencies – in this case local, state as well as [&hellip
More »
Architype Dialogue presents Tomomi Hayashi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The general public often have created their personal values to the building. These are not reflected in the requirements from the authorities and [&hellip
More »
Larry Speck has gained considerable national and international recognition for his work as an architect, an architectural critic, an academic and a teacher.
More »
Trisha Wilson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Associates, an interior architectural design firm based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi and Cochin, India.
More »
Hal Thannisch is a strategic thinker having tremendous experience in the conceptualization, creation and realization of destination luxury resort properties, leisure and business hotels, conference facilities, recreational facilities and master-planned communities globally
More »
As publisher and co-founder for Architype Media, Martin Schwartz, together with the design and production team has developed the vision and framework for Architype Media
More »
As editor-in-chief of Architype Review and co-founder of Architype Media, Harry oversees the selection and coordination of each of the publication’s issues and serves as the director of the Editorial Advisory Board
More »
Architect and urban designer Frank Fuller has spent his professional career acquiring and sharing the knowledge that have made him one of America’s premier urban design practitioners
More »
Michael is one of Lucid’s co-founders and has led the company since its inception in 2004, creating important alliances with universities, strategic partners
More »
Heather Gadonniex, LEED AP, is the EPD Program Manager at UL Environment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UL.
More »
Ashley Katz is responsible for developing, executing, and evaluating public relations, communications and marketing strategies to support and promote
More »
Inducted as an ASLA Fellow in 2001, and served as ASLA vice president of membership in from 2007 to 2008 during a time of increased growth in membership and leadership training
More »
Builds synergy between the corporate and rep organizations’ marketing approaches. She is also responsible for ensuring Landscape Structures’ premier brand identity is continually enhanced.
More »
Julie Dillon is the Communications Director at Bison Innovative Products and developed their how-to planning and installation videos among other accomplishments.
More »
Jared Green is Web Content and Strategy Manager at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
More »
Using her background in landscape architecture and ecological restoration, Heather Venhaus works with teams of designers to develop sustainable and regenerative design solutions
More »
TrippDesign Director at Forms + Surfaces. some of his contributions to the Forms + Surfaces’ product line include the Circuit Bench, Orbit Receptacle and Trio family of products
More »
Jason has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas and received his MBA from Texas A&M University – Commerce. He has worked in the LED display and lighting industry for eleven years with Mark IV, Philips, and Sansi
More »
Harrison Horan is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Banker Wire, a world leader in the manufacture of wire mesh for architectural and industrial applications since
More »