Early on the morning of June 18th  before the heat had set in, Zach Yohannes arrived at the old cold storage facility on his family’s farm near Visalia, California.  This large building once stored and refrigerated produce, but since the farm has moved its packing elsewhere and it has been [...]

The Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) in Valencia, Spain, is absolutely not lacking in wow factor. When visiting Valencia, you can glimpse its towers and domes in the distance when standing on ancient city gates and see the complex’s daunting size when you [...]

Design Craftsman Pete Nelson Takes to the Trees- Bringing Tree Houses to the Next Level On Friday, April 6 I attended a talk by Pete Nelson, international tree house expert, which was part of The David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design. Building 550 (a Design building) wasn’t exactly [...]

Americans drive a lot. In fact, we drive twice as much as Europeans (Shell, 40). This disparity is attributed to urban sprawl, the dominant US land development practice of the last century. The idea behind urban sprawl is sustained growth away from a city center into cheaper rural land. This created [...]

When you become conscious of an idea, it seems to appear more often.  In the design world I have noticed “sustainability” popping up everywhere from magazines, catalogs, to e-newsletters.  This last e-medium brought me a message today from a surprising source: 3D software giant Autodesk, who pioneered the computer-aided design [...]

This is the fifth of Sabrina Bedford’s posts about her arts internship in Houston, Texas and sixth of her columns for the Stanford Arts Review. Sabrina has been working with Dan Phillips – an artist, a builder of houses largely made out of recycled and salvaged materials, and the founder [...]