JUSTIN R. WOLF




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Architecture | Green Design | Energy Efficiency 

My byline has been featured Green Building Advisor, Fine Homebuilding, Metropolis, AIA Architect, Architect's Newspaper, Architectural Record, Green & Healthy Maine, ENTER (AIA Minnesota), Common Edge and other publications. 

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Three Years In: Revisiting the Stanley Center for Peace and Security Since Opening its New Headquarters

It has been over three years since the Stanley Center for Peace and Security moved into its new headquarters, an expansive, 24,000-square-foot civic structure that once served as the public library for the organization’s hometown of Muscatine, Iowa. Like many projects designed with the Living Building Challenge in mind, the building embodies the values and mission of its owner. But in the case of the Stanley Center, those ideals reveal a higher calling, reflected in the words of its founder Max...
Metropolis Magazine •

Inside the New Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music

“One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning,” Bruce Springsteen wrote in this 2016 autobiography Born to Run. “But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody performs this alchemy somewhere in their life, but it’s hard to hold on to and easy to forget.” Springsteen is stressing the ephemeralness of art. As any fan of the Boss’ music will attest, every record and album of his...
Metropolis Magazine •

SOM Creates a Breathing Building

Designing a breathing building requires a nuanced understanding of how light and air move both around and within its confines. This is typically informed by the structure’s physical context, including climate conditions, hydrology, and ecology, with the desired outcome being a building that is symbiotic with its environment. This complex process, however, is not entirely reliant on passive systems. After all, one’s lungs are only as healthy as the things the person chooses to consume and surroun...
Green & Healthy Maine HOMES •

Where and when upgrading to a smart electrical panel is … smart

Architect and Pretty Good House co-author Emily Mottram recently installed a SPAN panel in her Thomaston home, a 2,400-square-foot detached house built in the 1970s. “I decided to get one for my house so that I can test it before I tell other people that’s what they should do,” she says. “We were right at the edge with our existing panel in terms of space and power usage.” She replaced her home’s traditional 30-slot panel with a 48-slot SPAN (the company also has models with 40 slots) to have “b...
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“Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures” at the Rubin Museum of Art

Memento Mori is the Latin-Christian maxim translated as “Remember that you will die.” It is altogether sobering and, in some perverted sense, comforting; it’s an epitaph for the masses—commoners and kings alike. It is also the subject of the ’s latest offering, of the same name, and although said offering is a modest one, this exhibition is, quite literally, breath-taking.
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