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Architecture’s Kinships: An Architecture of Interdependencies and Coexistence    

Ignacio G. Galán’s Architecture’s Kinships invites architects to move beyond thinking of architecture as isolated objects and consider how buildings, designers, and communities are entangled in larger networks.

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What Is and Is Not Design for Neurodiversity

Following METROPOLIS’s inaugural Neuro Inclusive Design Summit, five key takeaways clarify what designing for neurodiversity really means.

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Antifascist Architecture: Imagining Another Future 

A conversation with Dan Roche, Andrew Santa Lucia and Lane Rick about utopian thinking and collective action.

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Perkins&Will Develops an Open-Source Framework for Timber Housing

The Modular Timber Housing prototype is a flexible and accessible design framework to drive economic development on Canada’s West Coast.

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A Whole-Systems Approach to Design for Autism: The ASD Design Matrix

A dynamic, multidimensional framework can help designers apply new scientific insights while designing spaces that include autistic people.

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Rediscovering the Joy of Materials

METROPOLIS’s April/May/June 2026 Issue explores how thoughtful choices can transform projects, strengthen communities, and inspire better design.

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Why Shade Is America’s Most Overlooked Infrastructure

Sam Bloch's Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource, makes a compelling argument that the simplest climate adaptation may also be the one cities have neglected the longest. 

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11 Tools Transforming Sustainable Design

The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights technologies, systems, and approaches helping teams streamline their work and tackle complexity.

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Wolf-Gordon’s Material Journey

Chief Creative Officer Marybeth Shaw on decades of innovation, from early use of natural materials like cork to today’s PVC-free and bio-based offerings.

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4 Signals of a Systems Shift in Nature-Based Design

The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 highlights new research nudging climate action toward coordinated strategies linking materials, ecosystems, data, and policy.

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We Need a New Approach to Designing for Autism

Architects and designers need to update their strategies for neuroinclusive design. Recent research points the way forward.

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Four New Roadblocks on the Path to Sustainable Buildings

The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 warns of four systemic and infrastructural limits to a more sustainable built environment.

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The Science of Better Buildings

MIT’s Holly Samuelson breaks down how architects can build sustainable, livable spaces.

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How a Big Firm Drives Big Change

Gensler’s Design Resilience Leader and Director of Sustainability Katie Mesia discusses how the firm is scaling carbon neutrality, shifting culture, and aligning sustainability with business performance.

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Can We Design Buildings That Give Back?

From low-hanging fruit to high-value visions, Living Future spells out a future for our built environment that’s brimming with social and sustainable impact.

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Closing the Loop at Interface

Interface’s Jay Lanier and Mikhail Davis discuss the company’s journey and its ongoing efforts around circularity.

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MOS’s New Book On Public Space, Power, and Communication 

Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith from MOS architects make the case for evidence-based city design—and reveal how public space is shaped by power, ownership, and use.

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Report: METROPOLIS Weighs in on Sustainable Design in the U.S.

The METROPOLIS Interface U.S. Sustainable Design Report 2026 captures the state of green building today and what comes next.