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Practice

The Vendor Client Relationship: Sound Familiar?

by Tommy Manuel

The video was pro­duced by Scofield Edi­to­r­ial, Inc.  If you have a ven­dor client story, or you have a film or video project you would like them to help tell, check them out here.
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Tonight, Peter Eisenman on David Letterman!

by Tommy Manuel

I’ve been study­ing for the LEED AP exam, watch­ing the con­tin­u­ous stream of dire eco­nomic news, and catch­ing up on the lat­est aca­d­e­mic lec­tures at GSAPP. What do the all these have in com­mon?  I came across an arti­cle by Frances Ander­ton titled “Excess” ver­sus “Rel­e­vance” is an Irrel­e­vant Debate that helped to direct these […]

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Sustainable REdevelopment

by Tommy Manuel

A cou­ple of RSS feeds in my inbox prompted me to address an issue I’ve been giv­ing some thought to for a while now. The first comes from Richard Con­niff writ­ing for Yale Envi­ron­ment 360, Pur­su­ing the Elu­sive Goal of a Carbon-Neutral Build­ing. Con­niff pro­files the recent addi­tion of Kroon Hall, a state-of-the-art green building […]

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Urban interventions via Google’s Street View

by Tommy Manuel

While  watch­ing James Kunstler’s TED Talk on the fail­ure of sub­ur­bia yes­ter­day I had an unre­lated thought  —  as often hap­pens  —  about Google’s Street View as a con­duit for guerilla archi­tec­ture and urban design.  Dur­ing his talk, Robin­son was show­ing slides of build­ings and urban set­tings he con­sid­ered objec­tion­able; the ubiq­ui­tous blank wall span­ning an entire city block and Pei […]

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