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Glen Small: VERTICAL CITY 3, DOWN TO EARTH

2012-09-18T16:49:00-04:00

TO THIS DAY I FIND THE PROCESS OF TEACHING WITH NUMBER CRUNCHING A HUGE MISTAKE. THE PRINCIPLES ARE WHAT COUNT. IF A STUDENT IS AWARE HOW THE STRUCTURE WORKS TO BE THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST THEN THEY CAN DESIGN WITH KNOWLEDGE.

Genius of Glen Small strikes and stuns again... This time it is Vertical City 3 from his student years at Cranbrook Academy of Art. It is "Down to Earth."

Question of the Year and SCI-Arc 2011 Thesis Reviews by Glen Small

2011-10-06T14:28:03-04:00

“HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE FORTY YEARS TOO SOON?” Question of the year from Jeffrey Kipnis to Glen Small at a rooftop bar.

SCI-ARC SCREEN TEST, I SHALL RETURN is a fun to read blog post with behind the scenes imagery. It includes an honest review of SCI Arc 2011 Thesis Projects as told by one of school's founding fathers, a visionary green architect and great critic, Glen Howard Small.

The big squeeze

2011-09-30T17:44:42-04:00

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture’s reorganisation of a 44 sq m studio apartment in New York in 2009 shows how architects in the Big Apple are designing better, smaller homes. The practice transformed an untidy, student-style pad in Manhattan’s East Village into “a live/work sculpture for a grown up” for its owner, Michael Pozner, head of retail development at American Apparel.

Glen Small's Detroit Trilogy

2011-07-03T18:05:01-04:00

Glen Small's visionary urban projects of Detroit 1966-69:

KERN BLOCK
VERTICAL ROAD MASS TRANSIT DETROIT
THE GREAT STADIUM