The Built Environment VI

By Jonathan Agrelius I seem to have a successful track record of underestimating what it is that God can do.  Our Vocational Intensive was a short, three-month immersive program that wrestled with the question of how, specifically, the gospel interfaces with our work as architects, urban planners, builders, engineers, real estate financiers and sales agents.   ...

Innovation Underground

Robyn Shapiro, Director of Community at the Lowline, speaks at the Faith & Work Conference about how imagination and innovation have often led us underground. With beautiful design and inspiring architecture, the Lowline seeks to be the first underground park in New York City using a new type of solar technology.  The Lowline's Kickstarter campaign is HERE. ...

Long Term Living in NYC

By: Lauren Gill The NYTimes reports that at the end of last year, only 4,749 apartments were listed for sale.  This was the lowest level of apartments on the market since 2000. Words to Start a Stampede: New York Apartment for Sale details the high housing costs which had a $1.425 million average for a Manhattan apartment this Spring.  How can we ...

Why Sidewalks Matter to God

Does God care about physical place? Does this earthly city in which we now dwell with all of its architectural glory and all of its devastating decay, matter to him? Perhaps sidewalks, plazas, and bike lanes have more to do with God than we may have imagined… Eric O. Jacobsen addresses what it looks like to be a physical community in a physical city bearing wi...

Why Sidewalks, Plazas, & Bike Lanes Matter to God

By: Amilee Watkins Does God care about physical place? Does this earthly city in which we now dwell with all of its architectural glory and all of its devastating decay, matter to him? Perhaps sidewalks, plazas, and bike lanes have more to do with God than we may have imagined… Join us for an evening with guest Eric O. Jacobsen on Thursday, October 4 at 8:00PM f...

Foundations of a Worldview: An Architect's Perspective

By Joanna Stephens Architects have an intense passion for what they do. Although the design profession includes aspects of various worldviews, this common passion stems largely from one of architects' most deep-seated motivations: a Platonic search for truth and the quest to make this truth known to the world through what we build. In ...

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