Archinect - News2024-05-03T05:10:49-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/113421877/designing-for-seniors-and-soldiers-toward-a-silver-architecture
Designing for Seniors and Soldiers, Toward a "Silver" Architecture Alexander Walter2014-11-11T14:25:00-05:00>2014-11-11T14:25:29-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1b/1b6c9e0aa9f2a0aa53b9113e615aa047?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, geriatrician Louise Aronson advocated for a new type of building, one designed with an aging population in mind, which, she suggests, might be dubbed “silver” architecture. [...]
It being Veterans Day, this article got me thinking about architect Michael Graves, who recently designed a pair of houses for returning soldiers that follow through on many of Aronson’s suggested parameters for silver design.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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