Starbucked

Taylor Clark’s Starbucked: a double tall tale of caffeine, commerce and culture has made me sensitive to the carefully engineered spaces of commerce that now dot our cities and malls. Engineering does not fully capture the totality of the effort, either. These spaces – the Panera’s, the Barnes and Nobles, the A&F and the hundreds…

On Quads

Space matters. And to the surprise of many, but not, perhaps, the marketing gurus at Starbucks, space matters a great deal in a world often navigated through screens. The ordering and arrangement of space signals values, summons emotion and establishes expectations for behavior. Within the realm of education, for example, the classroom serves as model…