JUSTIN R. WOLF




My writing


Architecture | Green Design | Energy Efficiency 

In addition to my content strategy practice, I work as a freelance journalist covering green building trends, regenerative design, and energy policy for a variety of media outlets, including Green Building Advisor, Fine Homebuilding, Metropolis, Architectural Record, ENTER magazine (AIA Minnesota), and others publications. 

Metropolis Magazine •

Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines

The roster of participating schools changes each year. The 2024 cohort comprises teams from Cornell, Harvard, Yale, University of Buffalo, University of Maine at Augusta, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, and University of Toronto. “It’s all about communicating to these communities how they might reimagine futures under rising sea levels, urban heat, increasing stressors on housing and economies and the like. We use design to catalyze those conversations,” says Claire Martin, En...
Metropolis Magazine •

Taisugar Circular Village is a Model Case Study for Circular Economies

What truly sets TCV apart from other examples of eco-housing collectives is BaF’s thoughtful use of circular design principles. The housing blocks are made of prefabricated modular parts, which heavily reduces material waste during construction. Further, balcony facade systems, designed and installed like a curtain wall, comprise precast modularized panels that are interconnected with simple nuts and bolts; modular, prefabricated hollowed core slabs make up the floor system. Also of note, every...
Metropolis Magazine •

Why Interface Wants to Phase Out Carbon Offsets

“We came together as a company and agreed this was our moment to be a leader in this space, to start the conversation about what we can do to be carbon negative without the need for offsets,” says Liz Minné, Interface’s head of global sustainability strategy. This is not uncharted territory for the company. In 2020, the company launched its carbon-negative carpet tile products. They were assessed cradle to gate (meaning the tiles’ impact was measured from the point of extraction to when they lea...
ENTER: The magazine of AIA Minnesota •

Modular Missing Middle Housing

The need for affordable housing in just about every U.S. city has placed a tremendous strain on the country’s ability to balance supply and demand. By some estimates, the U.S. needs up to five million new homes to meet demand. This at a time when housing prices are outpacing wage growth in most markets, and older housing units previously considered affordable are now going for “fair market” rate.In Minneapolis, help arrived on January 1, 2020, when the city’s comprehensive plan, Minneapolis 2040...
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Art Criticism | Art History

Gallery Crawl •

“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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