Community Architect Baltimore

An architectural, urban design, planning, transportation and urban policy blog with focus on the Baltimore region

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Does Baltimore Need More Mega Projects?

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Baltimore's history is a mix of innovation and complacency.  On the innovation side stand history altering projects that put Baltimore ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Housing Regulations to be Relaxed in Baltimore

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 In the quest for affordable housing a wave of code reform is sweeping America and Baltimore is no exception. A slate of bills under the tit...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

HarborPoint Park Sneak Preview

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The Allied Signal chromium plant, shuttered in 1985, was still standing on what is now known as HarborPoint, when representatives from Hone...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Special Benefits Districts - Good or Bad? (The Case of Midtown)

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Complaints about sanitation, lack of green and crime are perennial in Baltimore. City Hall seems to be too cash-strapped and too disorganize...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Poe Museum: Can Poetry Become Architecture?

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Architecture can be like poetry, but is the reverse also possible? Baltimore architect Davin Hong of re:vital Design is trying to do just th...
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Klaus Philipsen
Klaus Philipsen is president of ArchPlan Inc., an architecture and urban design firm in Baltimore specializing in award winning community revitalization, adaptive re-use, historic preservation and transportation projects since 1992. He writes as a passion and has connected the love of the word with his professional experience as a freelance writer for local newspapers, and as a blogger on urban design, planning, architecture and transportation. I received a five year degree of architecture at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. I also worked as an architect and planner in Stuttgart, Germany London, England before coming to the US in1986. I have taught architecture and urban design as adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and at Morgan State University, am a frequent speaker at international, national, regional and local events and an occasional contributor on local radio.
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