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The Architecture Of Abortion: How Providers Build Their Own Buffer Zones

2014-07-03T13:19:00-04:00

If women can’t always rely on legislation to support their cause, could they rely on architects? [...] Brown says it’s time for the design community to take a stand on women’s reproductive rights. “Architects have to become more politically engaged in our built environment.” To that end, Brown is helping organize a design competition that will rethink a privacy fence for Mississippi’s only abortion clinic.

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Editor's Picks #357

2014-03-05T19:15:00-05:00

The latest edition of Student Works: highlighted "Eidos" a proposal for a housing complex located in East Harlem, New York, by GSAPP students Carlo Bailey and Lorenzo Villaggi.

Plus, Archinect launched a new a new feature series, highlighting some of the more ambitious and intriguing workshops out there. The inaugural issue features the Tiny House Design workshop, put on by Boneyard Studios in Washington, DC.

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The Guardian published Zaha Hadid’s defense, regarding her role in Qatar World Cup following migrant worker deaths. vado retro was basically in agreement “she is absolutely correct architects are not responsible for job site safety and if architects become involved, even by commenting as to what should be done to remedy the situation, then the architect opens him/herself to liability claims...before condemning her comments it might be of some value to review Article 10 of A201 General Conditions of the Contract for Construction”

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The Architecture of Abortion Clinics

2014-02-26T15:28:00-05:00

Though abortion and the legal disputes that often surround it are visible media topics, abortion clinics are often pushed to the fringes of communities where access is the most crucial. But what if they were integrated into the mainstream of our everyday space: clinics in malls, clinics on military bases, clinics on high school campuses, and open access to preventative care?

Lori Brown explores this topic in her book Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals and delves into politics and architecture and how they manufacture landscapes with regard to reproductive healthcare access.

Brown, an architect herself, will be giving a public lecture about researching abortion clinics tonight in New York at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.