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Modern Architects Stink at Lying. Luckily, That’s Fixable

Richard Buday — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

What We Don't Get About Climate Change

Richard Buday — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fellow architects, can we talk? This is gonna hurt, but it needs saying. Were I a poet, I’d write, The end is nigh, and we are why. I’m no bard, though, so I’ll put it this way: Most of us suspect anthropogenic climate change will lead to civilization’s end. Some architects deny the science (“The climate is always changing!”), while others ignore the obvious (denial is a good coping mechanism), but buried within the folds of all angst-addled designer brains lies the fear that today’s toddlers could be the last of us.

How to Write an Architectural Manifesto

Richard Buday — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Architecture lost itself in an identity crisis not long ago. The discipline wandered in self-reflection, reexamining how practitioners go about their work, how the built environment should appear, and why. Movements came and went. Promising paths dead-ended. Eventually, the profession gave up looking for ways out of its uncertainty, leaving us where we are today.

How a Novel Saved Notre-Dame and Changed Perceptions of Gothic Architecture

Richard Buday — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by Common Edge as "It’s a Book. It’s a Building. It’s a Behavioral Intervention!"

A Brief History of the Impoverished Culture of Architectural Research

Richard Buday — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Confused and Impoverished State of Architectural Research."