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Retirement Living in a Multi-Gen Household

 
 

Where do you want to live when you turn 70? If you’re like most Americans, according to AARP, you expect to be living where you are right now and to stay there for the foreseeable future.....Read More

 


 
 

How ‘Smart Grid’ Can Help You Manage Electric Use

 
 

In the world of home building, a phrase such as “the new American dream” conjures images of flashy show houses and the latest and greatest in features and materials. In the world of engineering it conveys something else altogether, as I learned at a conference at the University of Kansas in May....Read More

 
 
 

The House Hunter’s Kitchen Quiz

 
 

For every house on the market, be it a resale or a home builder’s furnished model, the kitchen is the first stop for most prospective buyers and often the reason they choose one house over another....Read More

 
 
 

House or Home? Peter Eisenman on the Difference

 
 

Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Peter Eisenman is not a household name. But within the profession, he is a global celebrity who has written or co-authored more than 20 books, and he consistently appears on every list of the world’s top 10 living architects. His career spans more than five decades, and his provocative work is widely acclaimed for the ways it challenges conventional ideas about what buildings should look like, how they should function, and how we experience them. A professor of architecture at Yale, he has a doctorate in architectural history and is well-known as an architectural theorist.....Read More

 
     

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