by ivaagency | Mar 7, 2016 | Architecture, Community/New York, Culture, Design, Income inequality, Sustainability, Urban Planning
We started working with MAP Architects last summer. Since their primary area of expertise is affordable housing, and since that happens to also be a HUGE area of interest for the mayor and his administration right now, it seemed reasonable and responsible to...
by ivaagency | Mar 16, 2014 | Architecture, Income inequality, Sustainability, Urban Planning
I have heard three fantastic lectures in the past six weeks, and that it has made me rethink in wonderful, questioning ways about some of my long-held opinions about urban planning, buildings and the economy. I’m not going to go on and on, but I recommend...
by ivaagency | Jan 6, 2013 | Sustainability
Several years ago I was at a client office (Guenther 5 Architects, which became part of Perkins + Will New York) when a group of us gathered around somebody’s computer one afternoon to watch a very smart, cogent, animated film called The Story of Stuff. In it,...
by ivaagency | Oct 21, 2012 | Design, Sustainability
http://bit.ly/XDVCV6 I generally read the daily posts from Co.Design Daily; of course some are better than others. This listing, however, is fantastic, as it’s a compilation of winners of the Fast Company Innovation Award. It takes a bit of time to look into...
