These articles written over a number of years reflect architectural and urban observations and a concern for climate change and environmental issues that underwrite the continuing viability of cities, buildings, transportation and systems that support the social economy of urban life.
The articles are arranged by general topic. The short op-ed pieces in Banker and Tradesman are in their own category also broken up by subset. Many of the articles are linked to external sites.
Writing
ARCHITECTURE
Solar Healing – Ruminations on Healthcare Architecture, Medium, 29 August 2020
Architectural Arpeggios, Lecture at CEPT, Ahmedabad, January 18th, 2016 (YouTube - skip the ads)
Understanding Design: Lecture at Northeastern University, Boston, October 31st, 2013 (YouTube - skip the ads)
Pulverizing the Past, Architecture Boston, Fall 2012
Unintended Consequences, Architecture Boston, May/June 2007
Reforming Boston, Architecture Boston, January/February 2007
Architecture to Die For, Architecture Boston, Sept / Oct 2005
Written in Concrete, Architecture Boston, Mar/Apr 2005
Time, Place and Circumstance, Build Kenya 12/78
Fifth Year Theses, Build Kenya 12/78
Education and the Community: Multi-service Community Center at Kawangware: Buildings for School and Community Use,UNESCO, Educational Studies and Documents #26 (with Bruce Creager), 1977
URBANISM
High Tide of Opportunity (with Antonio DiMambro), Architecture Boston, Summer 2010
Courtyard Housing: Manual as Manifesto (pp 10-13), in Courtyard Housing ed. Christoforetti and Love, Northeastern University, 2010
A Bridge to Somewhere: The Case for a National Infrastructure Policy panel discussion reprinted in Architecture Boston, Winter 2009
Paved with Good Intentions, Harvard Design Magazine, Spring 2005. Reprinted in Saunders: Urban Planning Today, Minneapolis, 2006
Il Grande Scavo Continuá / The Big Dig Continues 20pp. Spazio e Societa No.73, Milan.1996
Il Grande Scavo di Boston / Boston’s Big Dig 28pp. Spazio e Societá No.54, Milan, 1991 (by Antonio DiMambro)
Going to the Dogs - London's Isle of Dogs AA Quarterly, Volume 4/2, 1972
ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE CHANGE
Field Notes on Design Activism - Places Journal, November 2022
Machines in the Garden - debating windpower in rural Spain, Places Journal, January 2022
What’s Missing from the Climate Change Legislation? Commonwealth Magazine, 27 March 2021
A Chance for a Real Green New Deal, Commonwealth Magazine, 22 February 2020
The Earth Shakes, the People Rise, Architecture Boston, Winter 2018
On Climate Action, Do Not Hit Snooze, Commonwealth Magazine, 16 April 2018
Green Infrastructure, in Infrastructure and the Future: Assessing the Architect’s Role, ed. Amanda Lawrence, Northeastern University, 2009
For Boston, the lessons from Venice, Matthew Kiefer and Hubert Murray, Boston Globe 11 December 2008
PALESTINE
Dear Yasmeen - building a kindergarten in Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, Places Journal, August 2021
Landscape as Resistance in the West Bank, Places Journal, June 2021
Science Against All the Odds, Mondoweiss, 16 Jan 2020; Boston Society for Architects website;
and in Science for the People, Spring 2020
Planting in Palestine – the seeds of a new society? Mondoweiss, 10 April 2019
PERSPECTIVE
Redundancy in Three Acts: Lessons from Suez Medium, 1 April 2021
Is Red Blue and Blue Red? Medium, 5 November 2020
Propinquity and Serendipity in the Time of Coronavirus, Oxford Magazine #422, June 2020
Spatial Distancing, Social Nearing, Medium, 7 May 2020
Future Stock, Architecture Boston, Fall 2013
Larry Vale Interview, Architecture Boston, Jul / Aug 2003
Charles Redmon Interview, Architecture Boston, Jan / Feb 2003
Anne Whiston Spirn Interview, Architecture Boston, Fall 2001
Banker & Tradesman Boston, quarterly articles 2001-2010
Practice
Where Are the Clients? 10/7/2002
A Matter for the Record 1/13/2003
Professional Prescriptions 8/6/2007
Public Realm
Something New Out of Africa 7/8/2002
A Transparent Idea for Boston 10/18/2004
City Should Invest in the Arts 4/19/2004
A Plaza for the People 7/25/2005
Transportation
Going Along for the Ride 10/13/2003
Time and Tide Wait for No Man 7/25/2005
Really Dealing with Wheels 4/25/2005
A Few Pedestrian Concerns 5/1/2006
Public Housing
Catching a Glimpse of the Future 4/8/2002
Hitting the Nail on the Head 7/14/2003
Central Artery
Edging Towards Greening Success 7/19/2004
Stitching the Fabric of Boston 1/24/2005
Conservancy Shows a Way Forward 12/30/2006
Environment
An Opportunity for Success 1/30/2006
The Wearing of the Green 5/7/2007
