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Category Archives: Interview
Interview: Peter Sigrist and Katia Savchuk, co-founders of polis
I’ve mentioned before that though I didn’t discover polis until after beginning planologie, polis is in many ways a working model for what I hope planologie will become. Sitting down (virtually – we chatted online via Google WAVE) with Pete and Katia, the cofounders of polis, seemed logical for the first planologie interview.
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Posted in Interview, Josh Grigsby, Polis, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptive reuse, Anthony M. Tung, Bill McKibben, blogging, Brendan Crain, Civic Nature, collaboration, community development, Cornell, dharavi, globalism, Google WAVE, Harvard, Hernando de Soto, housing, India, informal settlements, katia savchuk, Koliwada Urban Typhoon, McKinsey, megacities, Moscow, Mumbai, NGOs, peter sigrist, Polis, residential mobility, San Francisco, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, urban decision-making, urbanism, Westernization, Where
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Interview: Traditional Home Builder Devin P. Rutkowski
The retention of vernacular architectural practices maintains a place’s connection to its past. It also informs the direction it charts into the future. I’m currently living in a small town in Florida—Sarasota—that has had its share of troubles during a growth process that has seen disparate vernacular styles such as Florida Cracker and the Sarasota School emerge, prosper, decline, and slowly reemerge. A new crop of craftsmen/builders are reviving traditional design, including Devin P. Rutkowski, founder and president of Bungalow Builders, LLC.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, History, Interview, Josh Grigsby, Local Inspiration, Placemaking, Sarasota, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, What if?
Tagged Arts & Crafts, bungalow builders, Craftsman, Devin Rutkowski, durable design, Florida Cracker, green building, historic homes, mass production, mixed-use, New Urbanism, pedestrianism, planologie interview, Sarasota bungalows, Sarasota School, suburban design, sustainable building, TND, traditional homes, Traditional Neighborhood Design, vernacular architecture
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