Everything about Andrew Riiska's first solo exhibition "Wrong Side Up" is solid.

What elevates furniture making to art, is answered in one solid curatorial move. A table is no longer a table when it's hanging above your head and its carved underside is revealed.

The material Riiska uses...

The Arab Spring was made possible by Facebook servers -- sitting in one country affecting another. The ability of information in the form of electrons, to easily pass through borders designed to stop things in the form of atoms, forces us to update our ideas of sovereignty, and the seven...

The NYC Department of Sanitation will use 10 million gallons of fuel, at a cost of approximately 40 million dollars, to collect and dispose of 3.2 million tons of residential waste, in 2011.

I've come up with a simple idea to reduce the cost, of collecting this waste, to...

This year's Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is 75 years old, 74' tall and weighs 10 tons. The lighting ceremony was watched by millions of people, and it is estimated that 750,000 people will visit the tree every day. To make the process more "green," the tree was cut down using a...

"MIC CHECK. MIC CHECK."

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, an old saying goes. In the same vein, but not quite as sentimental, is another old saying immortalized in neon at Katz's deli in NYC. It reads: "SEND A SALAMI TO YOUR BOY IN THE ARMY."...

Pacific Standard Time is a sprawling cultural initiative with 68 major museum shows and 125 gallery exhibitions including California Design 1930-1965: 'Living in a Modern Way' at LACMA, which presents a comprehensive collection of objects, artifacts, and ephemera in a variety of scales, materials and forms. The only thing that seems...

For the first 100 years of our relationship with cars, the important metric of automobile performance has been speed. The automobile dashboard has evolved over time to reflect this relationship. No matter what type of car you drive, the modern dashboard is familiar to all drivers. There is a prominent...

One obvious lesson that we can learn from Occupy Wall Street is the need for public restrooms in urban environments. For years in NYC this responsibility has been put on store owners, mostly restaurants and bars who have had to let the public use their private facilities, often begrudgingly.  

Lets take a quick look at the environment. In Thailand the city of Bangkok is currently under water due to severe flooding. Japan is still recovering from the tsunami in March. Closer to home, 483 Americans were killed this spring by deadly tornados. Hurricane Irene changed the landscape of upstate...

While there are certainly differences between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street protesters, there appears to be a common belief in the minimal role that government should play. This deeply concerns me as an architect and a citizen. I write to challenge this troubling and misguided shared assumption...

Today (9/23/11), on the National Mall in Washington D.C., 19 houses powered by the sun will be open to the public for viewing. The presentation of these homes is part of an event called the Solar Decathlon; a student competition run by the Department of Energy that takes place every...