Making the most of a tree epidemic
With trees infested by the emerald ash borer deemed essentially worthless, a team of designers wanted to see if the decaying wood could be repurposed as a building material.
Leslie Lok, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Cornell University
• conversation
Aug. 4, 2020 • ~7 min
Aug. 4, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: architecture carbon construction trees design ash
Buildings have their own microbiomes – we're striving to make them healthy places
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways that support helpful microbes and suppress harmful ones?
Mark Fretz, Research Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Oregon
• conversation
April 17, 2020 • ~10 min
April 17, 2020 • ~10 min
Tags: covid-19 architecture microbiome microbes coronavirus-2020 cleaning buildings environmental-health
The story of a remarkable Hindu temple in Pretoria's inner city
Built by Tamil immigrants almost 100 years ago, the temple has survived apartheid and urban decay to remain at the heart of its community.
Tags: architecture inner-cities restoration racial-segregation pretoria group-areas-act churches hindu-tamils forced-removals
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