Sometimes it's important to ask questions rather than proposing answers. Lately we've been inspired by the book, Never Built New York, by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, which asks the question, "What if we had built any of the provocative projects proposed by innovative architects over the past century? What would the urban landscape and the architectural landscape look like? Daniel Libeskind writes a compelling forward in which he argues that architecture doesn't need to be bui

Greg Lynn would often tell us that a good architect should always be ready for a commission when it comes along. The way you do that is to have a constant stream of design research happening behind the scenes that is "in progress" or "WIP". Then, when a commission comes, the craft that you've been developing is now ready for prime-time. At FFD, that advice has helped us be ready for opportunities that arise. The MARS Pavilion is a good example of design research coming to fru