Archive for 'Interviews'
David Easton – 45 Years of Rammed Earth
Building materials and resilience are intrinsically linked. Rammed earth is perhaps the longest-enduring building material.
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Steven Miller: The Next Big Thing
“There’s an assumption of durability for architecture. Interior design is more temporal, focusing on subliminal cues in the built environment. It’s not about following a formula. Rigor isn’t clear unless it’s opposing chaos. Anything can be beautiful – in the right hands.”
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Earthen Construction as Earthquake Relief: A Case Study in Rebuilding a Rural Nepali Community
“We could never have understood local needs without growing closer to the villagers themselves. Over time, they gave us insight into the most pressing issues of their community.”
– Oliver Atwood
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Minnesota Street Project: Ecosystem for the Arts
“If we don’t do something soon, there won’t be an arts community in San Francisco at all. It’ll become a city of millionaires and homeless people.”
– Andy Rappaport, co-founder
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Why is Art Better than Tech?
Could art help people to act as “disruptive innovators” and “agents of change” in a different kind of way? Gary Hutton: “Any fool with enough money can buy a Ferrari.”
(Photo: Matthew Millman)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Gary Hutton: Becoming an Art Collector
“Start by educating yourself. Art should make you think, shake you up, see the world differently. Building the next great widget is a laudable task… But art speaks to the soul rather than the pocketbook.”
(Photo: Matthew Millman)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Alan Tse: Adaptive Modernism
“My first valuable opportunity for a signature 11-story high-rise condominium building was shattered by all 7 Planning Commissioners… 672 hours later, I transformed from a egotistic architectural designer into a humble-minded individual getting a career-long lesson.”
(Image courtesy Alan Tse)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Sonja Trauss: Pro-Housing SF Candidate Advocates for Affordability
“San Francisco’s old guard wants to keep you out by preventing you from finding housing, which is driving rents sky-high. Why would you want to vote for them?”
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Bernardo Urquieta: Drawing & Design
“Is there a right and a wrong in art that applies to everyone? Through sketching and observing, you discover for yourself the environment that surrounds and supports you. You create your own thoughts, your own personal ideas, your own experience, your own rules. I believe that this is the basis of human freedom.”
– Bernardo Urquieta, AIA
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
