This week we look at the coming of the contingency workforce and what it means to design, help for locating the right materials, social media for architects, the hominess effect, and what a design bureau established almost 100 years ago can teach us today.
Lisa Tucker, IIDA, published Net Zero Housing: The Architects’ Small House Service Bureau and Contemporary Sustainable Single-Family House Design Methods for the United States in the current issue of Journal of Interior Design. Her thesis? The approach to design taken by the ASHSB in the early 20th century can be used as a model for dealing with the challenges of net-zero and sustainable housing today.
IIDA convened an Industry Roundtable last month entitled Work: Who, Where, How. The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media, which explored the impact of social media on the A&D industry. The conference white paper will be available soon but in the meantime, check out an interview with Lira Luis, one of the roundtable panelists who discusses how she uses social media.
Thomas Fisher, Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota and Huffington Post columnist looks at the rise of the contingent workforce. Their growing impact on the economy trickles down to everything from workplace design to city planning.
In Architectural Change and the Effects on the Perceptions of the Ward Environment in a Medium Secure Unit for Women, psychiatric inpatients were transferred to a new, purpose-built facility. British researchers assessed the effects of the new homier environment on patients and whether the new unit had any effect on symptomology.
Finally, check out a resource for locating the “latest and most intriguing materials commercially available.” The Transmaterial website is based on Blaine Brownell’s books.
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