Archinect - News 2013-05-24T04:24:51-04:00 http://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 Archinect 2012-10-25T12:08:00-04:00 >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 &ldquo;peak people.&rdquo; The world&rsquo;s supply of working-age people will soon be shrinking, causing a shift from surplus to scarcity. As with &ldquo;peak oil&rdquo; theories &mdash; which hold that declining petroleum supplies will trigger global economic instability &mdash; the claims of the doomsayers are too hyperbolic and hysterical. These are not existential threats but rather policy challenges. That said, they&rsquo;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"> <html><head><meta></head></html> http://archinect.com/news/article/54221695/robert-venturi-retires-and-firm-renames Robert Venturi retires, and firm renames Archinect 2012-07-26T14:45:00-04:00 >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&rsquo;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"> <html><head><meta></head></html> http://archinect.com/news/article/23425382/gordon-walker-designs-a-house-for-the-future Gordon Walker designs a house for the future Paul Petrunia 2011-10-10T15:14:25-04:00 >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>