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Decoding Design
Reena Jana
Reena Jana
Contributing Editor
Reena Jana has written for the New York Times, Wired, Harvard Business Review online, Fast Company, Architectural Record, Artforum, Time Out New York, Harper's Bazaar, and GQ. Previously, she was the innovation department editor at BusinessWeek. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Barnard College.
Reena Jana
Reena occasionally consults with companies, and when her writing discusses a corporation or other organization with which she has worked, she will disclose this fact. Reena does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo Kim
Contributing Editor
Sun Joo Kim is an architect and creative consultant based in Boston. Her projects include design and master planning of museums, public institutions, hospitals, and university buildings across the U.S. She holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo is an independent architectural designer who contracts with design firms. She does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Beth Carter
Beth Carter
Contributing Editor
Beth Carter is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She has worked for Catalyst magazine, the New York Times Syndicate, BBC Travel and Wired. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and New York University.
Beth Carter
Beth does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers in her writing.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Contributing Editor
Mary Catherine O'Connor has written for Fast Company, Wired, Outside, Entrepreneur, Earth2Tech, Earth Island Journal and The Bold Italic. She is based in San Francisco.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine has written white papers and marketing material for technology companies and will not write about companies with which is actively engaged. She will disclose any instances in which her work mentions companies for which she has worked. Mary Catherine does not hold any investments in the companies that she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 10-2011
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High energy performance with low tech residential design
Resembling a traditional Hudson Valley barn, New York’s first certified Passive House was designed by architect Dennis Wedlick with support from the New York State Energy Research and...
October 21, 2011, 6:23 AM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Q&A: Brenda Sheer, Dean, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah
Brenda Sheer is spearheading the first attempted renovation of a large, non-residential building into a net-zero emissions structure. In a conversations with SmartPlanet, she tells us how they are...
October 20, 2011, 8:00 PM PDT | By Beth Carter
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Q&A: Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel, Continuum Fashion
Continuum Fashion’s Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel discuss how their printed bikinis are the product of combining architecture and media arts training with clothing fabrication.
October 20, 2011, 7:37 PM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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How to design better city streets for the blind
How do people without sight navigate the city streets? Wired’s Q+A with a blind doctoral urban planning student takes a look at the answer and how it could make moving through cities better...
October 19, 2011, 5:10 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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A Match.com for stalled architecture projects, financial suitors
Many architecture projects are currently experiencing delays because of funding challenges. Inspired by online dating sites, the American Institute of Architects is creating a database to...
October 19, 2011, 11:31 AM PDT | By Reena Jana
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New York City home to world’s largest rooftop farm
Brooklyn Grange, housed on a warehouse rooftop in Queens, is thought to be the world’s largest rooftop farm.
October 18, 2011, 10:44 PM PDT | By Beth Carter
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New trend in emerging-market innovation: slums as inspiration
Emerging-market innovation has been a hot topic in business circles over the past couple of years. A new trend within this field: looking to slums for inventive designs to adapt elsewhere, says...
October 18, 2011, 8:45 PM PDT | By Reena Jana
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Gehry: Transforming the building industry through technology
Frank Gehry and friends shift focus to designing the tools that design buildings.
October 18, 2011, 6:20 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim
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Vertical gardens reaching new heights in Milan
In his new high-rise residential development, architect Stefano Boeri says trees and plants will help control the building’s climate while capturing its grey water and boosting air quality.
October 18, 2011, 6:00 AM PDT | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Future buildings could eat (and grow from) carbon emissions
Exploring the real world applications of bio-engineering building materials to mimic living systems.
October 17, 2011, 3:49 PM PDT | By Sun Joo Kim