Tonight I’m presenting at the Green Festival in Seattle. The format is Pecha Kucha, which I’ve done before, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to present CITYCROPS ideas for a vertical aquaponic greenhouse to an audience likely to be sympathetic and already engaged in some of the principles behind this work.
A Future for Agriculture

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CITYCROPS started in earnest when I got laid off from my role as ‘Senior Architectural Technician’ with HOK. I worked in a Seattle-based project office on the Honolulu International Airport, a multi-billion-dollar-budget project that I was often frustrated by - hierarchy and all.
I have a lot of experience with aviation architecture and working with a [...]

After its discovery, one of the most prolific uses of glass in construction was for displaying exotic plants brought back from Roman adventuring.  Then came the Crystal Palace, in the 1850’s.  Then came skyscrapers, dripping with glass.
Urban greenhouses, proposed by CITYCROPS, require two paradigm shifts for design.  The first is to stack grow-floors on top [...]

The last hundred-plus years have brought a lot of change for the U.S. and the world as a whole.  Agriculture strategies, however, maintain an inertia long outpaced by the human population boom.  You don’t have to look far into the future to see the logical conclusion to this is bad for everyone.  Actually, you don’t [...]