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The Pandemic’s Work-from-home Lessons

In the third and final part of “Work from Home Changes Both,” designer and educator Scott Klinker unpacks how the pandemic has changed where we work and the tools we use.

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Remixing Work and Home: How to Think About Hybridity

In the second part of “Work from Home Changes Both,” designer and educator Scott Klinker explores conceptual tools for remixing spatial ideas.

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Five Models of Work and Home

In the first part of “Work from Home Changes Both,” designer and educator Scott Klinker identifies five models for the relationship between “home” and “work.”

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A New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity

Joseph Giovannini's Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a monumental exploration of non-conformist design.

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What Is Gen Z Looking for in the Workplace?

ThinkLab explores how the next generation of designers' relationship to digital tools will impact how they communicate at work, what they look for in an employer, and how they specify.

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The Future is Hempcrete

As the construction industry grapples with its hefty carbon footprint, hemp is rapidly rising to the fore as the innovator’s material of choice—in Europe, at least.

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Three Technologies Are Changing how We Design for Climate

Charged with addressing the global climate crisis, designers around the world are responding to the challenge with innovation.

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Designer Julia Watson on Reaching the Age of the Symbiocene

Metropolis asked Australia-born, New York-based Julia Watson to tell us more about what the Symbiocene era holds.

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Designing for Autism

Sandow’s executive vice president and design futurist, AJ Paron, speaks with Melanie Isaacs, founder and CEO of Pal Experiences, a nonprofit dedicated to creating access and inclusion for individuals with developmental

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What is Queer Space?

Metropolis selects over a dozen stories from its archive that celebrate the past, present, and future of queer space and LGBTQ+ designers.

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Queer Spaces Will Always be Necessary

Two new books show that the relationship between queerness and the built environment can yield innovative physical spaces that are at once adaptable, accessible, and inclusive.

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An MIT Study Shows Design Can Increase Engagement

A group of researchers at MIT found that the right level of crowdedness led to more chance encounters and more frequent communication across disciplinary boundaries.

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 Surviving and Thriving

With a focus on learning, the March/April issue of Metropolis celebrates the Future100 and sheds a light on how design is reshaping the spaces where education takes place.

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Manhattan’s Center for Architecture Imagines the Future of Universal Design

Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Juliana Barton, Reset: Towards a New Commons explores “more holistic approaches to inclusion” through architecture and design.

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7 Stories to Celebrate Earth Day

From an argument against new buildings, to a proposal to redesign the sustainability holiday, these articles tackle some of the biggest ideas in sustainable design.