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Thoughts on the 15-minute city

July 16, 2024 chriscosper

I was working from home this morning, and my stomach started to rumble. To remedy that situation, I decided to…

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Filed under: urbanism

The Honest Menace? Thoughts on Brooklyn Tower

September 16, 2023 chriscosper

SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower looms over New York City, like a postmodern Barad-dûr (image from SHoP) What should the architecture of…

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Filed under: architecture, economics

David Adjaye and the dangers of hero worship

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Until this summer, David Adjaye represented one of the most positive stories in the international architectural community: a Ghanian/British architect…

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Filed under: Starchitect fails

Cosper House Energy Usage

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In a previous post, I encouraged Thom Mayne and Blythe Alison-Mayne to release the EUI data for their house, since…

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Filed under: climate change, environment

Alison-Mayne House: sustainable or not?

July 7, 2023 chriscosper

It’s hard to tell, given the lack of hard data and allusions to the Almighty…. Is the Alison-Mayne House, designed…

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Filed under: architecture, climate change, Starchitect fails

A sharp piece of criticism from Ryan Scavnicky

July 3, 2023 chriscosper

Every 1,400-word essay should be so dense with meaning. Ryan Scavnicky, the founder of Extra Office and a teacher of…

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Filed under: architecture, Starchitect fails, structure

Cost of electric vehicles to match gas-powered vehicles much sooner than initially expected

February 13, 2023 chriscosper

A combination of incentives to customers, incentives to manufacturers, new lithium mines, more battery manufacturers, and improved manufacturing techniques is…

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Filed under: climate change, economics

U.S. begins to address climate crisis at long last

February 6, 2023 chriscosper

The passage of the weirdly named Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 last August marks the United States’ first significant attempt…

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Filed under: climate change, economics, politics

SCI-Arc ruckus shines light on exploitative labor practices in architecture

April 17, 2022 chriscosper

During a SCI-Arc panel discussion on practice, students were told they needed to work long hours for low or even…

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Filed under: architectural education

The Metaverse: an ideal home for the Starchitects?

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Sometimes everything just works out. We have entered a period when the consequences of global climate change are glaringly apparent,…

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Filed under: Starchitect fails

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