(2022). Correction. Journal of Architectural Education. Ahead of Print.

(2022). The Journal as Platform. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

(2022). Health. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 3-8.

In August 2020, Paul Lewis, Guy Nordenson, David J. Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki published online in Issuu The Manual of Physical Distancing.11 Paul Lewis, Guy Nordenson, David J. Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki, Manual of Physical Distancing by LTL Architects (Issuu, August 10, 2021), https://issuu.com/djlewis72/docs/200622_manualphysicaldistancing_draft. In it, they and their team compiled a set of their

This essay highlights how nineteenth-century epidemic diseases catalyzed environmental thinking in architecture by examining air and vapor bathing technologies and their role in transmitting environmental medical principles into British building culture. Vapor baths were popular medical devices used to fortify a patient’s health by passing hot or cold air charged with steam over the skin, a vital membrane

This paper documents the United States military’s use of landscape as an active warfighting tool during Operation Enduring Freedom. A selection of declassified projects that outline plans for tree plantings, which range in scale and design intensity from individual tree replacement to urban park improvements and large-scale reforestation efforts, demonstrate a consistent weaponization of the physical

Irresistible staircases are material symbols for the “new public health.” Popularized by sustainability standards and health-centered approaches to architecture and urbanism, they intend to motivate health-centered behaviors. This paper uses critical disability theory to analyze built forms, visual and textual narratives, and works of art, showing that the irresistible staircase aims to both produce

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically exposed the vulnerabilities of the American public school system. The architecture of educational buildings themselves became the flashpoint in discussions about equity, support for teachers, and student health. In a recent graduate architecture studio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, students considered the proposition of the pandemic-resilient school

Indigenous people in Australia suffer from significant disparities in health compared to their non-Indigenous peers. Policies to address it have had little success. Using Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘enunciative modalities’ and Wiradjuri historian Lawrence Bamblett’s theory of deficit discourses and ‘straightline stories,’ which builds on Foucauldian theory, this essay explores the reasons for the

(2022). Well-Being in Architectural Education: Theory-building, Reflexive Methodology, and the ‘Hidden Curriculum’. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 85-97.

Recognizing the importance of well-designed spaces in ensuring a high standard of patient care for their 2.4 million patients, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) partnered, in 2020, with architect Deborah Richards, principal of Oklahoma-based firm Script Architecture, to develop design guidelines for Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates across the country. The resulting design guidelines

The ex voto—a material donation as a response to a divine miracle of intervention to a private health concern—negotiates the relationship between self-expression and public awareness. Drawing on the example of the (now demolished) Church of Sants Gervasi i Protasi in Barcelona, this text explores the use of the ex voto as a physical artifact that produces a shared narrative. A reflection on the ex

This micronarrative describes a participatory teaching event involving students of midwifery and design. Using generative design methodologies and adopting storytelling as a common ground, the design workshop sought to raise awareness of the spatial impact of the birth environment on all those who pass through it. This narrative demonstrates the value of stories in an interdisciplinary context and

Filters for both the body (N95) and for buildings (MERV-13 or greater) have gained unprecedented public interest during the past two years. This essay examines some of the historical periods in which respiration and filtration were driving concepts in architecture, and considers the degree to which future architecture might be mandated to respond to the public’s newfound exactitude of air awareness

Throughout the 1930s, the kafes (the lattice screens on windows) became a public concern in Turkey. The medical as well as ideological connotations of kafes led to widespread campaigns, and it was banned by many local authorities for sanitary reasons. Articles published in the Turkish media at this time link the kafes (as an architectural element with religious and political connotations) to disease

(2022). Clean, Cool Air: Health and Air-Conditioning in India (1920s–1960s) Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 133-137.

(2022). JAE 76:1 Issue PDF. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. i-1-i-138.

(2022). Correction. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 138-138.

(2021). Thank You. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 155-155.

(2021). Building Stories. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 156-158.

This essay focuses on imagination as a crucial source of innovation and makes a plea for an approach to architectural education that enables imaginative thinking about new spatial and temporal realities. It starts by foregrounding the strong connections between imagination, stories, and language. It then proposes the reading, telling, writing, and making of stories as four approaches in introducing

This paper is a series of tales of sea level rise on the coastal floodplain of Surrey, British Columbia. It begins with the Indigenous tales of the Great Flood that inform Coast Salish collective identity. This collective identity becomes permanently altered as illustrated in tales about how colonial tools of maps and surveys dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their lands while inflicting ecosystem

Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on the buildings we create. Here we advocate for a broadening of the canon suggesting that there are other traditions and forms of speculative fiction that destabilize the canon through which we imagine the future of buildings. Inspired by the recent coinage of “auto-theory” and the work of feminist

In the time of upheaval and crisis, what is the point of design education? In nearly every school of architecture or design there is a central, unspoken rejoinder to this question: the point of design education is to condition each successive generation of students for a lifetime of exploited labor that is detached from any critical relationship to the role that designers play in aestheticizing and

This paper examines Lebbeus Woods’ 1988 project “Underground Berlin” and a corresponding film script coauthored by Woods, in an exploration into affinities between cinematic thinking and architectural imagination. Placing Woods’ professional and theoretical engagement with film within the constellation of discourses regarding film’s relationship with the built environment, this paper posits “Underground

Film inspires the spatial and societal imaginations of architects and urban designers, and thus, design teachers have long been experimenting with films, filmic techniques, and filmmaking in the studio. Building on the course design and student output of an undergraduate architectural design studio entitled Projections for the Urban Night, this essay aims to demonstrate how film can be utilized as

This study of the relationships between spaces and stories reconsiders the common conception of architecture as a constructive art that shapes buildings and streets, so that they accommodate and represent the patterns of our lives. I imagine it will not be controversial to say that architectural works are fabricated. But when it is said they are made, possibly few will understand what I shall suggest:

(2021). Building Stories. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 238-240.

(2021). Cinderella’s Lost Shoe. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 241-241.

(2021). Aeolian Spa. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 242-243.

(2021). Apartment #5, a Labyrinth and Repository of Spatial Memories. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 244-245.

(2021). Domicile. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 246-248.

On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump summoned a mob of angry supporters from across the country to Washington DC, where they were to join the president at a “Save America” rally. The premise for the rally was Trump’s oft-repeated and patently false claim that the 2020 presidential election had been “stolen” from him. In a speech given at the Ellipse, Trump incited the crowd, warning “If you don’t fight

Elephant in the Room is a speculative ecofeminist fable for the climate crisis. The animation addresses the elephant in the room—the climate emergency—by telling the story of one elephant who takes action to combat environmental injustice and climate change.

Stay-at-home Stress is a spatial survey narrating the pandemic stories of sixteen households in Houston, Texas. By translating lockdown experiences of sixteen participants into comparative annotated plans, the project tests a new graphical method for interview transcriptions and surveying-by-storytelling, shifting the relentless statistical gaze of COVID-19 toward the granular scale of the domestic

In this project, Voltaire’s Candide: or, The Optimist, has acted as a proxy for architecture to discover spatial potentials latent in literary works. The work presented here poses two questions. One question is discursive: how could architecture utilize literature as a representation of collective cultural memory and bring distant history into closer proximity? The other question is disciplinary: how

A growing number of environmental, technological, and cultural reasons support the case for greater attention to the existing building stock and expanding practices of building alteration. And with it, renewed attention to architecture’s central instrument for documenting existing buildings: the as-built. Commonly overlooked as a sterile service instrument, the as-built is exposition for new architectural

Architecture furnishes spaces for narratives but also contributes to the building of fictional worlds. While these worlds might be glimpsed through the more classical drawn representations of architecture—plans, sections, and elevations—the collateral disciplinary texts of architecture such as manuals, specifications, contracts, and promotional materials can participate in the construction of design

(2021). Carceral Tales: A Report on Prison Pedagogy. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 309-312.

(2021). #ArchSoWhite. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 313-315.

(2021). Did You Hear That One About Neutra and Williams? Architectural Spreadability in a Post-Truth Context. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 316-320.

(2021). What’s in a Name? Etienne-Louis Boullée’s Redesign of the Bibliothèque du Roi, 1780–88. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 321-324.

(2021). Cautionary Tales of a Whacky Kind: On the Uses of a Design Imagination that Avoids Consensus. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 325-328.

(2021). House on a Washtub-Sized Eminence: Ellis Parker Butler’s Critical Satire of Site-Specificity. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 329-331.

(2021). Mademoiselle Sculpsit: A Backstory. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 332-336.

(2021). Reframing stories: A Woman and Her Building at the Dawn of the Mexican Revolution. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 337-340.

(2021). Correction. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 341-341.

(2021). Statement of Retraction: Environmental Communications Looks at the Built, Los Angeles, 1970s. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 342-342.

(2021). JAE 75:2 Issue PDF. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. i-155-i-342.

(2021). Time to Build. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 1-1.

(2021). Built. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 2-4.

(2021). Build. No Exceptions. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 6-9.

(2021). Building Agnotology. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 10-12.

(2021). Interviews: The Built as Knowledge Production. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 13-13.

(2021). Interview with Marie Law Adams and Dan Adams of Landing Studio. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 14-17.

(2021). Interview with Søren Johansen and Sebastian Skovsted of Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 18-21.

(2021). Interview with Geoffrey C. Warner of Alchemy Architects. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 22-24.

(2021). Interview with Jan De Vylder of architecten jan de vylder inge vinck. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 25-29.

(2021). Interview with Toma Plejić and Lea Pelivan of STUDIO UP. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 30-33.

(2021). Interview with Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 34-36.