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Jul/Aug 2021
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Viewpoints
40 Years of Metropolis and the Future of Architecture and Design
Celebrating 40 years of Metropolis, the July/August issue looks back on decades of groundbreaking ideas and digs in to challenging topics like diversity and equity in the design industry.
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Products
11 New Product Launches for Work-Life Balance
Through modular, flexible design, these product launches suit today’s changing work conditions.
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Profiles
For Iris Wang, Major Collaborations Show Persistence Pays Off
The founder and artistic director of fabric brand Brentano established the family fabric brand on gentle strength and passion for design.
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Profiles
For Ghanaian Textile Designer Chrissa Amuah, Storytelling is Everything
The creative director and founder AMWA Designs has recently released a new fabric collection with Bernhardt Design that incorporates abstract interpretations of Ghanaian symbols.
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Profiles
Roby Isaac Is Building a More Diverse Product Design Landscape
With strategies ranging from artist collaborations to recruitment, Roby Isaac, vice president of commercial design for Mannington Mills, hopes to pave the way for the next generation.
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Products
Knoll Increased the Percentage of U.S. Forest Stewardship Council–Certified Wood in its Furnishings. Here’s why that Matters.
A collection designed by David Rockwell demonstrates a broader adoption of sustainable forestry practices in the furnishings industry.
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Viewpoints
A Pioneering Exhibition Will Showcase Contemporary Indigenous Architecture
Embracing “placeknowing” as a process to understand building and planning, the curators will highlight modern achievements in Pueblo architecture.
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Viewpoints
Six Initiatives Model Ways to Practice True Design Justice
Across the globe, architects, designers, and planners are redefining what it means to be an advocate in the design professions.
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Products
Biodegradable and Renewable Polyurethane Is Around the Corner
Scientists are slowly weaning polyurethane, an omnipresent polymer, away from reliance on fossil fuels.
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Viewpoints
For the Office, the Future Is Now
A ThinkLab report finds that if we adapt as we go, the workplace could become a practical extension of our present conditions.
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Projects
In Los Angeles, Students Complete a Complex Pedestrian Bridge with Robotic Assistance
A collaboration between Mary and David Martin's MADWORKSHOP and students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture, the bridge's intricate steel frame was digitally modeled and robotically assembl
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Projects
In Palo Alto, a House for Deaf Clients Provides Clarity
Terry and Terry architecture put DeafSpace concepts into practice with plenty of space, even lighting, and clever visual cues.
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Viewpoints
Torkwase Dyson Reflects on Hyper Shapes
A series of drawings that explore how enslaved people who sought freedom used the built environment inform the artists' ideas around nomadicity, liberation, movement, and perception.
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Projects
In Kansas City, a Dialogue with the Past
BNIM’s design for the West Bottoms Flats in Kansas City, Missouri, traces the area’s evolution from industry hub to urban haunt.
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Projects
Three Projects Put Community First
A hospital in Senegal, a museum in Winnipeg, and an urban planning intervention in Los Angeles demonstrate a sea change in architecture and the process of community engagement.
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Projects
A Revisioning of Los Angeles’s Crenshaw Boulevard Puts Community First
The residential communities that branch off Crenshaw Boulevard provided extensive input for a new public art corridor that dovetails with the expansion of the L.A. Metro.
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Projects
A Global Hub for Inuit Art Avoids Aesthetic Literalism
Michael Maltzan's design for Qaumajuq, the Inuit art center at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, was informed by a research trip to the far north.
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Projects
A Senegal Hospital Extension Responds to the Local Context
Designed by Manuel Herz, the maternity and pediatric hospital expansion aims to transform the conditions under which patients receive care.
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Viewpoints
Why Aren’t Black Firms Working on Memorials to Slavery?
A new memorial in Virginia is the latest cultural project acknowledging a debt to enslaved African Americans. But the most high-profile commissions and contracts are hardly ever awarded to African-American firms.
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Profiles
Colab-19’s Provisional Projects Make a Mark on Bogotá, Colombia
Born of the pandemic, the firm is deploying its kit-of-parts methods to grapple with political, social, and medical instability.