Humans have always been a part of the natural world, but as our technology and knowledge progressed, we distanced ourselves from nature. We have created a human ecosystem that functions in its own way and rarely works in ...

Both as a poet and a critic, Thomas Stearns Eliot has profoundly influenced post-world War I literature. Not only has he conveyed his view of the human condition poetically, but he has articulated the philosophy which ...

Shifting urban planning methodologies to reintroduce equity, support the foundation of a city and emphasize the strength of community engagement through networking. Urban contexts are compositions of interwoven systems of ...

The environment is adapting to its continually changing landscapes, modified by man to make way for cities and architecture that dominates over the surrounding green spaces that still exist. But over time, the once dominating ...

Through the process of urban decentralization, the way in which people live and establish community has changed drastically. Traditional urban relationships founded upon physical proximity to large centralized institutions ...

What is place? Place is how one comes to experience or inhabit a particular location or even how a culture begins to associate a place with a particular concept or idea. It can be something as simple as a sandbox that a ...

Open-cell metal foam is a class of modern porous media that possesses high thermal conductivity, large accessible surface area per unit volume and high porosities (often greater than 90%). The high porosity means very low ...

Objects of Architectural Potentials is less interested in the production of dynamic, fluid, complex shapes or forms, than it is in discovering dynamic, fluid, complex architectural, design processes. By reframing our ...

The world in which we live provides a limiting range of experiences for our individual sensory needs as well as our social interactions as a community. Architecture has created a disconnection between humans and nature by ...

The American urban landscape has been shifting for the past century. Shifting away from the public and social life to a private one, a life behind closed doors. Is our society to blame for this, the culture itself, or ...