Archinect - Features 2024-05-01T18:24:09-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149964896/win-eco-monopoly-by-playing-for-sustainability-not-profit Win ECO-MONOPOLY by playing for sustainability, not profit Julia Ingalls 2016-09-07T11:42:00-04:00 >2019-03-01T13:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/o9/o9c40tuvge1w6yee.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>When the Parker Brothers' version of the game Monopoly was released in 1935, it was primarily a celebration of capitalism; players were encouraged to build as much high-priced real estate as they could by acquiring desirable tracts of land and then forcibly renting them out to unlucky arrivals. The goal was to bankrupt the other players, all the while dodging the slings and arrows of the often financially ruinous 'Chance' cards.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/149962360/cuteness-and-the-fight-for-architectural-preservation Cuteness and the fight for architectural preservation Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-08-19T09:19:00-04:00 >2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/iv/ivcp3rsfevhy3ocg.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>We all know architecture is a deathly serious business&mdash;but sometimes, that severity weighs so heavily that it becomes oppressive, restricting debate to an academic mean and setting a glacial pace of cultural influence. When that happens, the key to liberating architectural discourse might just arrive in a coat made of kittens, painted in Lisa Frank fluorescence.</p>