Through digital displays and environmental sensors, new architecture projects are creating a visual way to monitor environmental conditions in specific places.
Technology is taking an even bigger role in architecture and design in terms of communicating environmental indicators.
"'We're at a very special point in design when a counter-revolution is about to happen, very similar to the 1920s, when [Swiss-French pioneer of Modern Architecture] Le Corbusier wrote that machine civilization was looking for its architectural expression,' Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told CNN.
'Today it's a digital civilization that is really about to find its architectural expression.'"
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San Francisco's School District Spent $105M To Build Affordable Housing for Teachers — And That's Just the Beginning
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Can We Please Give Communities the Design They Deserve?
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The EV “Charging Divide” Plaguing Rural America
With “the deck stacked” against rural areas, will the great electric American road trip ever be a reality?
Judge Halts Brooklyn Bike Lane Removal
Lawyers must prove the city was not acting “arbitrarily, capriciously, and illegally” in ordering the hasty removal.
Engineers Gave America's Roads an Almost Failing Grade — Why Aren't We Fixing Them?
With over a trillion dollars spent on roads that are still falling apart, advocates propose a new “fix it first” framework.
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