Architecture columns from respected writers such as the great, late Joel Solkoff in the USA for e-architect – architectural thinking, articles about current building issues and built environment challenges.
Joel Solkoff (1947 – 2022)
Sadly he passed away on May 3, 2022 in his local Williamsport hospital, Pennsylvania, USA. He was passionate about architecture, especially disability rights and affordable housing.
He was a thinker, and for sure we need more of those in this world. He was born in New York City. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and was a graduate student from Penn State’s Rehabilitation Counseling program.
He started writing for us with a series of columns on Renzo Piano’s Morgan Museum and Library in New York City. He praised this Manhattan building for its good access.
Remembering Joel Solkoff. Design matters: we who are about to die salute you. ‘We are going to have to live with Covid. We cannot eliminate it. We have to learn how to control it’ — Dr. Anthony Fauci, November 28, 2021
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” — US football legend Vince Lombardi. The 1865 building is the most important building in the City of Williamsport, PA, USA – 192 immeasurable miles from New York City
Architects must help with deadly eviction crisis in USA which is killing our poor children, writes Joel Solkoff. There is a member of Congress who is doing God’s work when all around her are not
Build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania, USA. Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each place
A new US capital city and my coronavirus experience. Consider the Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) the most important government agency involved with the coronavirus pandemic in the US. The Department is not simply a building
All Architects Today Must Be Covid-19 Architects: no new housing – impact of Trump 2020 HUD Budget. The White House proposes over $9 billion in cuts to critical housing programs
Architects, I regard myself as a refugee from rural Pennsylvania, currently 19th fastest growing hot spot in United States of America. President Elect Biden will return the USA to the WHO
President Biden Architecture: Joel flees to NYC to escape the Third Wave. “no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be…one person can make a difference in the world.”
Architecture under the Biden Presidency. Despite fears of violence and foreign interference, over 100 million US Americans cast their votes safely and without significant problems in the midst of our worst health crisis in over 100 years.
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for a new architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable. Joel Solkoff’s report – Mandarin translation – on the obligation of architects to respond to Coronavirus
COVID-19 has accelerated the need for a new utilitarian architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable. Joel Solkoff’s report on the obligation of architects to respond to the exigencies of Coronavirus
Attention Architects: US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket, You Must Build Housing for the Poor. Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 3 – report on the obligation of architects to respond to the exigencies of the Corona virus comes in two parts.
US COVID-19 Deaths Will Skyrocket, You Must Build Housing for the Poor. Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 3 manually translated into Mandarin – report on the obligation of architects to respond to Coronavirus pandemic
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 1, reporting on Queens Public Library at Hunters Point, New York City, by Steven Holl Architects, USA. Disabled people struggle to access books and reference materials in the $41.5 million building.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, defendant in the Queens library disability-rights law suit which he will lose. For five years, Mayor de Blasio served ex officio on the Board of Trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library which planned and oversaw the Hunters Point project.
