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• Environment, Workplace • Issue 006

  Compact Urban Living

  Living in Boston is great, if you can afford it. A new design methodology for housing might hold the key to both affordability and livability.

  

• Environment • Issue 004

  Architecture in Revolution

  Why Cuba? After watching the documentary Unfinished Spaces, I fell in love with the idea of visiting Cuba. The film chronicles an arts-focused campus that Fidel Castro commissioned soon after his socialist regime gained control of the island, and then the campus’ ultimate demise. The documentary artfully weaves the design and construction of the art schools with the political climate of Fidel’s regime. The film was an inspiring starting point for my research.

  

• Education • Issue 001

  Where Design Meets Play

  “It’s a place that seems a bit wild and a little risky, a place where the unexpected can happen.”

  

• Workplace • Issue 015

  Lessons Learned from Quarantine

  As interior designers, we design places where people want to live, work, and play. However, the COVID-19 crisis and the need for social distancing has led us to question—what happens when work, life, and play all collide in the same space?

  

• Environment • Issue 014

  Redesigning Recycling

  Perhaps you’ve seen the waves of plastic strangling our oceans or even spotted an overflowing trash bin in your neighborhood, spewing out single-use items.

  

• Community • Issue 003

  Rethinking Boston’s Storied Planning Agency

  Follow along the branding and revisioning journey of the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA).