Critique / David A Gross

	Portfolio Residential Commercial Special Purpose Site and Master Planning Adaptive Reuse Institutional Additions Competition Vision Guiding Principles Critique Architectural Photography Skill Set About David A Gross Hand Sketching 3D Construction Details Graphic Communications Pattern Book Introduction 1.1 Inhabit the Site 1.2 Massing Echos Land Form 1.3 Western Views 1.4 Climate Responsive Design 1.5 South Facing Outdoors 1.6 Sheltering Roof 1.7 Refuge and Outlook 1.8 Positive Outdoor Space 1.9 Capturing Light 1.10 Compose With Materials 1.11 Focused Garden 1.12 Functional Landscaping 2.1 Cultural Continuum 2.2 Social Context of the West 2.3 Abstraction of Form 2.4 Sense of Place 2.5 Cohesive Community 2.6 Porches make Good Neighbors 2.7 Transit Oriented Development 2.8 Eco-Revelatory Design 2.9 Water-Wise Landscaping 2.10 Adapted Landscape 2.11 Solar Access 2.12 Living in Nature

			Norman Foster’s Leadership Role in the Advancement of an Ecologically-Responsible Architectural Ethic

			David A. Gross

			British architect Sir Norman Foster has changed the face of global architecture with a diverse oeuvre of innovative, ecologically-responsible buildings and urban master plans. Before sustainable design became fashionable, Norman Foster’s projects demonstrated a consistent methodology combining economy of structural means, passive conditioning strategies, and a deep concern for the quality of life of his building’s inhabitants. This article identifies the origins of Norman Foster’s ecological awareness and documents his groundbreaking architectural innovations while analyzing the impact of his sustainability leadership on international architecture and the built environment. READ ARTICLE

			An analysis of Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall and its contribution to the advancement of Critical Regionalism

			David A. Gross

			The design of Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall is generally regarded as a major transitional event in the Finnish architect’s distinguished career, as his work moved away from the anonymous cubic typology of internationalism, to a more site-specific and humanistic approach incorporating the tectonic ideals of modernist form. Concurrently, Finland may have finally found it’s own architectural expression after a half century of stylistic indeterminacy, through the practice of what is now known as ‘critical regionalism’. Säynätsalo Town Hall represents the hybridization of a localized architecture referring to vernacular traditions and the genius loci, with the abstracted geometric form of international modernism. READ ARTICLE

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