NEW YORK: “One of our great failings in planning or conceiving of cities is that we break everything into silos – hospitals and schools are quite separate as entities rather than as part of a total social organism that is a city,” says architect Philip Thalis.
Thalis focuses on urban housing and architecture’s role in making our cities “sustainable, equitable and liveable.”
“There’s a middle way we’re not seeing the market provide for – the five- or six-level, well-designed apartment model that achieves very high density that’s not scary, that has shared outdoor spaces.”
“There’s a lot more capacity for innovation when architects are taking a more financial role and putting their money where their mouth is and backing different ways of thinking about housing,” says…