Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

Even diehard Instagrammers admit it: Sometimes the best design is in what you don’t see. Such is the case with passive solar design, an approach to building that—in a nutshell—uses a house’s site, ...

It’s another sunny day on the Internet. Dozens of participants are lined up in their digital boxes attending Reimagine Buildings ’24, an online conference held in the spring dedicated, mostly, to ...

As revolutionary as the construction sector may seem nowadays, it currently accounts for nearly 40% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, 11% of which are a result of manufacturing building ...

“I knew nothing about design or building when I moved to Santa Fe in 1981,” says retired homebuilder and developer Mary Anne Stickler. “I was a single mom. I got a job as a laborer with a builder who ...

“A few people felt that only so much could be said about adobe.” This quote, from an adobe building magazine achieving its one-year anniversary in 1975, forms an epigraph to the introduction to Albert ...

Work on Phase Three C of The Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony, a 55-apartment midrise building in Boston that stands out for its use of Passive House design principles, was recently completed.

Architectural design today embodies a dynamic interplay between traditional craftsmanship and modern technological innovation. Contemporary practice is increasingly defined by an integrated approach ...

The Khalil Gibran International Academy and PS 456 by ARO is a 146,000 square foot facility containing a Spanish-language elementary school and Arabic-language high school on Flatbush Avenue. It's New ...