When Architects Design the Farm: Why the Growing Operation Comes Before the Building in Controlled Environment Agriculture

Jul 8, 2026 When Architects Design the Farm: Why the Growing Operation Comes Before the Building in Controlled Environment Agriculture Source: AgriFlats, by Wheeler Kearns Architects. Architects are increasingly asked to put a working farm inside a building. Rooftop greenhouses, ground-floor grow rooms, glass-wrapped food districts. It is one of the most exciting briefs in the built environment right now, and one of the easiest to get wrong. The difference is almost never the quality of the...