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 | May 13, 2015 | Architecture, Urban Planning
If you’ve only seen London in movies and TV shows, like I had until last week, you’d imagine that there are a few streets where historical dramas are filmed, and a couple of neighborhoods that are pretty, and then, perhaps, like me, you’d think that...
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 | Jul 2, 2013 | Architecture, Urban Planning
Several months ago, there was a flurry of interest in micro-housing in New York. The Museum of the City of New York opened an exhibit that displayed the winners of a city-sponsored competition to design very, very small apartments – smaller than are now...
