by Sonja Bochart, IIDA, LEED AP, LEED AP BD&C, WELL AP, LFA, and Annelise Pitts, AIA, LFAMost strategic planning begins with a familiar question: What should we do next? We believe there is a better place to start: Who are we...
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Designing for the First Moments: Planning and Designing Special Delivery Units
By Andre Kamili, AIA, LEED AP and Michelle Amberson, AIA, ACHA, EDACJohn R. Oishei Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY. Photo by Tim Wilkes.Some bundles of love come with bundles of medical concerns, requiring specialized hospital care and facilities. The special...
Renewal by Design: Reimagining Clapp Library at Wellesley College
By David Whitehill, AIAMargaret A. Clapp Library, Wellesley, MA. Photos by Marjorie Becker/Accidentally Wes Anderson.At Wellesley College, the Margaret A. Clapp Library has long stood as both a physical and symbolic center of academic life. Originally built in 1909...
Ten Years After: Designing the Austin Central Library
By Lynn Petermann, AIA, LEED AP BD+CAustin Central Library, Austin, TX. Photo by Nic Lehoux.When the Austin Central Library opened its doors in the fall of 2017, it immediately reshaped the cultural and architectural landscape of downtown...
Healing, Connecting, Comforting, and Restoring: Designing for Holistic Wellness
By Amanda Vigneau, IIDA, NCIDQVivian A. Kao ’04 Health and Counseling Center, Wellesley, MA. Photo by Marjorie Becker/Accidentally Wes Anderson.At Wellesley College, wellness is considered foundational to student success. For decades,...
A Library for the Community: Designing Equity into the Montrose Library
By Alyssa Hitt, IIDA, NCIDQ, LFAIn the heart of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, one of the city’s most vibrant, diverse, and expressive communities, the Freed‑Montrose Neighborhood Library redefines what an equitable public space can be....
A Lehigh for Everyone: Designing for Inclusion at Clayton University Center
By Katie Chambers, AIA, EDAC, LEED APFor seven consecutive years, Lehigh University has been recognized for its leadership in equity and inclusion as a Higher Education Excellence and Distinction Award recipient and a two-time HEED...
Evolving Student-Centered Design at Johns Hopkins: Key Programming Steps
By Matthew Gifford, AIA, LEED AP, and Kalyn Pavlinic, NCIDQ, LEED AP, IIDAThis is part two of a two part series exploring the decade of planning behind the design of Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Student Center. Read part one, where...
Four Lessons from Renovating at Lehigh University
By Bob Mohr, AIA, LEED APSome architecture projects are destined to challenge standard modes of historic preservation practice. Shepley Bulfinch’s recent work renovating Lehigh University’s Clayton University Center at Packer Hall is one...
Sustainability at the Heart of Campus Life: Connecting Design with Nature
By Matthew Gifford, AIA, LEED AP, and Carrie Leneweaver, AIA, WELL AP, LEED GAThis is part two of a two part series exploring the sustainable vision behind the design of Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Student Center. Read part one,...
The Change Curve
By Michelle Amberson, AIA, ACHA, EDACWhat if that unexpected change request is actually your design’s secret weapon? In design studios everywhere, the words “we have a revision” tend to land with a thud. Client changes, often framed as...
Designing With the Neighborhood
By Omar Bailey, AIA, LEED AP, NOMASeated at a critical juncture between Phoenix’s dense urban core and the historic Roosevelt neighborhood, the design for Saiya called for architectural rigor grounded in deep listening and collaboration....