Monthly Archives: February 2009

RISD Faculty Biennial

The RISD Faculty Biennial just opened at the Chace Center last week and 3six0 has several pieces on display.
In addition to full time faculty members, Kyna Leski and Chris Bardt, all four part-time faculty members in the office, Aaron Brode, Olga Mesa, Jack Ryan and Manuel Cordero, each submitted office work for inclusion.  Go check [...]

How Can Architects Help Our Communities?

On December 17, 2008, the AIA New York launched its Not Business as Usual initiative in an effort to unite the architecture and design community around issues relating to the current economic crisis: a slowdown in new projects, downsizing of firms, current projects put on hold, a lack of positions available to recent graduates. An [...]

33 Restaurant and Lounge, Circa Restaurant and Stix Restaurant and Lounge in PLUS magazine

33 Restaurant and Lounge, Circa Restaurant and Stix Restaurant and Lounge were featured in PLUS Architecture and Interior Design magazine.

carved books

“Book Autopsies” Brian Dettmer

PBN: Keeping Architecture Relevant in the Business Community

Sometimes we only learn that we’ve been written up in a newspaper or magazine after a call or an email from a friend of the firm. This morning, we received a tip that 3six0 appears in the most recent issue of Providence Business News. It’s a recap of the Rhode Island AIA awards from December [...]

Travel Journal of China

I have recently returned from an extended 26 day trip to China. I made two earlier trips to China in 2004. On the previous visits my travel was limited to the three major cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing due to the shorter time period of 10 days each trip. This time I was able [...]

Architecture as reference

Architecture as symbol

Over the last week we all shook our heads in frustration at the excesses of Wall Street and the banks that we, as taxpayers, are supporting.  We heard of corporate jets, billions in bonuses and an $87,000 area rug.
This all made me think of the streets of Buenos Aires after the economic collapse of Argentina [...]