Archinect - News2013-05-24T04:24:51-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/60031544/peak-people-soon-the-world-will-have-to-compete-for-workers
Peak People: Soon the World Will Have to Compete for Workers Archinect2012-10-25T12:08:00-04:00>2012-10-29T23:27:16-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/fd/fd0fad5eacfdfeb7c11350e8db30e780.jpg" width="300" height="202" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The world is on the threshold of what might be called “peak people.” The world’s supply of working-age people will soon be shrinking, causing a shift from surplus to scarcity. As with “peak oil” theories — which hold that declining petroleum supplies will trigger global economic instability — the claims of the doomsayers are too hyperbolic and hysterical. These are not existential threats but rather policy challenges. That said, they’re very big policy challenges.</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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http://archinect.com/news/article/54221695/robert-venturi-retires-and-firm-renames
Robert Venturi retires, and firm renames Archinect2012-07-26T14:45:00-04:00>2012-07-30T23:33:10-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/l9/l9nr6x84jz7begxi.jpg" width="250" height="250" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Robert Venturi, who along with his wife Denise Scott Brown formed one of Philadelphia’s best known architectural firms, has retired and the firm known as Venturi Scott Brown and Associates Inc. has been renamed VSBA.</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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http://archinect.com/news/article/23425382/gordon-walker-designs-a-house-for-the-future
Gordon Walker designs a house for the future Paul Petrunia2011-10-10T15:14:25-04:00>2011-11-24T09:05:52-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/hm/hmyq44im2vwmy4uw.jpg" width="514" height="342" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Walker showed his idea around. The response was near freezing.
"So far, people don't like them," he says. "They say, 'I want something I recognize.'
"The baby boomers are coming of age, and I always imagined that they were more design-minded than they turned out to be."
Or they just haven't caught up to Gordon Walker.</p></em><br /><br /><p>
A Seattle architect designs a house for him and his wife to grow old in, and realizes he's way more cool than most other senior citizens.</p>