Articles by Mark Alan Hewitt

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

There is a new school of architecture in Naples called “Building Beauty,” run by disciples of the former Berkeley professor Christopher Alexander. The name contains a deliberate reference to a word seldom used by establishment architects today—a word that Alexander believes embodies the natural order of things.

Sustainability awards and standards touted by professional architecture organizations often stop at opening day, failing to take into account the day-to-day energy use of a building. With the current format unlikely to change, how can we rethink the way what sustainability means in architecture today? The first step might be to stop rewarding purpose-built architecture, and look instead to the buildings we already have. This article was originally published on CommonEdge as”Why Reusing Buildings Should be the Next Big Thing.”

This article was originally published on CommonEdge as “Was Modernism Really International? A New History Says No.“

This article was originally published on CommonEdge as “Robert Venturi and the Difficult Whole.“

This article was originally published on Common Edge as “Contrary to Architecture’s Critical Establishment, Robert A.M. Stern’s Yale Colleges Are a Triumph of Placemaking.”