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1 week ago | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen |Duo Dickinson
When architects talk about AI, it triggers me into a Groundhog Day–like reliving of the dire warnings against computer-aided design (CAD) in the 1980s: The field would be decimated, rendered obsolete. But just as CAD was not design, artificial intelligence is not intelligence. Some architects decry the darkness of impending technology to explain the bland buildings that are carpet-bombing our landscape. This design malaise is not due to how these buildings were drawn.
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1 month ago | 
commonedge.org | Duo Dickinson |Martin C. Pedersen
Welcome to Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and Bridgeport public radio station WPKN. In many ways, design journalism in the 21st century is in uncharted territory. Digital technology has changed everything, eroding the business models of the previous century and catapulting everyone onto the infinitely fractured world of the internet.
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2 months ago | 
commonedge.org | Duo Dickinson |Martin C. Pedersen
Welcome to the second episode of Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and Bridgeport public radio station WPKN. All specializations create their own language, rules, and personalities that reinforce the values of those engaged in that particular work. Architecture is no different.
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2 months ago | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
I’m driving in the French countryside, north of Le Muy. I’ve been invited by a friend of my neighbor’s to receive an introduction to his job as a wine bottler. Entering the drive into the winery, I am met by a long allée of towering maples, turning my view vertical as I glance up at their spidery overhangs. Out the other end, I pass a chateau, a modest affair, closed for the off-season. I drive along a dirt path that brings me to a parking lot.
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2 months ago | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
MCP: Martin C. Pedersen RF: Richard Florida : MCP: Your research piqued my interest because I am one of those millions of people that do a website from my dining-room table and put out content on a regular basis. I was interested in this report, especially coming from you.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
commonedge.org | Duo Dickinson |Martin C. Pedersen
We are excited to announce the launch of a new monthly podcast, Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and Bridgeport public radio station WPKN. We will talk with some of the most thoughtful voices in architecture, design, and culture in an accessible way that reaches beyond the cloistered debates that architects often have with each other.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
What if the housing crisis wasn’t about the cost of lumber, labor, or land, but about bureaucracy? Imagine a world where, instead of developers navigating an obstacle course of entitlements, permits, and approvals, cities themselves took on the challenge of creating the housing they want and need. The good news: there are two models that show how U.S. cities can fast-track high-quality housing that people want to live in and enjoy seeing on the streetscape.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just take a show of hands. How many people here today are familiar with alternate-side-of-the-street parking?” Civello’s question was met with laughter and a near-unanimous show of hands in the audience. “It’s probably the most successful program the city has ever rolled out,” he continued.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
The first miniature I ever saw was in Honey Pearlman’s farmhouse. Our family would visit Honey when we stayed with my grandmother in upstate New York: I remember feeding the chickens and swimming in the pond (with its sizable population of leeches).
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
commonedge.org | Martin C. Pedersen
Check your Instagram feeds or watch YouTube these days and you will likely see inspirational clips of French people getting emotional about the rebuilding of their cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris. Nothing in recent history has united a nation so quickly and cohesively as this effort. If you’re not French, you may be bored of the gushing tributes from firefighters and donors and French citizens, all of whom seem to have had a hand in making “the impossible” happen over the last five years.
