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  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018 featured image

    Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    <p>Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year.…

  • Adaptable Glazing Shields featured image

    Adaptable Glazing Shields

    <p>Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from…

  • Execution Ways

    Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena

  • Terra Cotta Skins featured image

    Terra Cotta Skins

    <p>This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will…

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden featured image

    The Versatile Envelope Garden

    <p>Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they…

  • Saving Face featured image

    Saving Face

    <p>In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of…

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades featured image

    Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    <p>Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…