Getting Published

This May, I had two articles published: one in a Lithuanian conference journal and the other in an American planning magazine.

At the beginning of May, I presented an article, "The Potential of New Urbanism in Vilnius" at the 2009 K. Šešelgio Readings conference held at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The conference featured a range of urban planning and design topics including the trends of sacred building construction in Lithuania, Klaipėda sea port development, creating multifunctional neighborhood centers, examining city edge patterns, and learning from 'dead' architecture projects.

A Latvian architect, Arne Riekstins, presented his article about the "Parametric Approach in Designing Large Scale Urban Architectural Objects". Arne's presentation dynamically described new methods in design that produce buildings like Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao.


As a second place winner, I received a book called Zervynu Kaimas detailing historic wood houses with photographs, sketches, and floor plans. It's a lovely book published in 1974 by K. Šešelgio, the namesake of the conference.

Equally exciting is the publication of my article on Vilnius, "Lithuania's Capital City Goes Modern," featured in the May 2009 issue of Urban Land Magazine.















Urban Land Magazine is distributed to over 40,000 members internationally. I hope that my article will spark interest in Vilnius among planners, developers, and maybe even potential tourists.