2024-12-23T22:10:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150248413/a-conversation-with-cover-co-founders-on-their-tesla-inspired-building-process-and-the-future-of-construction Sean Joyner 2021-02-10T14:24:00-05:00 >2024-12-09T16:31:09-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/87/87e3521d7c892538ab26cad1e77c9d86.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph first met while studying architecture at the Cooper Union. After school, Alexis worked on several residential projects at a number of firms. He began to notice inefficiencies in the project delivery process, which propelled him into an exploratory journey that eventually led him to a job in prefab construction. But that wasn't good enough for Alexis.&nbsp;</p> <p>He believed the prefab construction industry had missed a few things. There were still too many pitfalls. With lessons uncovered from the automotive and tech industries, Alexis wanted to productize the home, approaching its production like one might approach the production of a car or a smartphone. But he needed help.</p> <p>Alexis reached out to his old colleague from architecture school, Jemuel, who had a special gift with software and computers, and the two soon embarked on an ambitious pursuit to reinvent the way homes are designed and delivered.&nbsp;</p> <p>Soon, the partners conceived <a href="https://archinect.com/cover" target="_blank">Cover</a>, a technology company that...</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/108655901/factory-berlin-a-new-tech-incubator-emerges-from-the-ruins-of-the-berlin-wall Nicholas Korody 2014-09-15T11:06:00-04:00 >2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mw/mwrmyr451lqw6q64.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The archives of the <em>New York Times </em>testify to the euphoria that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989. An article entitled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/11/opinion/the-end-of-the-war-to-end-wars.html" target="_blank">&ldquo;The End of the War to End Wars&rdquo;</a> reads: &ldquo;Crowds of young Germans danced on top of the hated Berlin wall Thursday night. They danced for joy, they danced for history. They danced because the tragic cycle of catastrophes that first convulsed Europe 75 years ago, embracing two world wars, a Holocaust and a cold war, seems at long last to be nearing an end.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/87376636/aftershock-2-serendipity-machines-and-the-future-of-workplace-design Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-11-27T17:59:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lv/lv04qs1u2c6fqs3w.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/features/tag/330501/aftershock" target="_blank"><strong>AfterShock </strong></a>is a non-conclusive series that grapples with the impact and responsibility of contemporary architectural design, hoping to instigate dialogues on how to make architecture more accountable.</p>