The 20 Design Visionaries from METROPOLIS’s 2024 Coverage

Farshid Moussavi’s Open-ended Architecture Comes to the U.S.

If architecture can be understood as an assemblage of “actants”—defined by Farshid Moussavi as the architect, building, and user—it can also be seen as something of a hive mind. For Moussavi, this distributed agency is precisely the point. “Architectural practice is nonlinear,” she reflects.
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Equipo de Arquitectura Practices Material Sincerity

Equipo de Arquitectura’s projects do not blur the line between outdoor and indoor and sky and ground; rather, they “marry” them. In practice, the native landscape and greenery are not perceived to accent these buildings and structures; instead they work in concert to produce a sustainable and inviting space. 
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An Architecture Office of the Future

In a fully digital design process, Studio Rap’s architects send their codes to the robots, which print the clay forms. “It took us more than three years of testing and readjusting the production process again and again,” remembers ter Hall. “But I think it was worth the effort.”
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Format Architecture Office Envisions an Expansive Design Process

Format tends to “think in multiple drafts,” like expanding and contracting a story—always looking to hit that magical underlying mark that makes a design feel balanced in both concrete and emotional terms.
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Abeer Seikaly Weaves Nomadic Architecture with New Technologies

Abeer Seikaly’s commitment to exploring both past practices and the cultural contexts in which they were developed is not only admirable but necessary for architecture to adequately address sociopolitical unrest and climate catastrophe.
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Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes

Open Design Collective, General Architecture Collaborative, and Nowhere Collaborative are helping reinvent design practice by creating community-led processes and turning traditional Western design thinking on its head. 
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Walter Hood: Facing History Through Landscapes

“My career has gone from a small stream to now a river where some of these ideas can actually permeate the public realm. But for a long time, a lot of these things could not. I’ve been told over and over, ‘Walter, we‘re not ready for that yet.’ “
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Designer Yinka Ilori Wants to Bring Joy to Work

Yinka Ilori’s love of color was inspired by his family, who came to the U.K. from Nigeria. “My dad recently gave me a school report from when I was 8 or 9, which says, ‘Yinka has a great use of color, and enjoys drawing snails and mushrooms.’ ”
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How TAKK Is Rethinking the Template for Architecture

Beneath the vivid pink structures and avant-garde installations that have become emblematic of the celebrated 14-year-old studio lies an earnest interrogation of the role of architects during fragile times.
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Ifeoma Ebo Is on a Quest for Urban Healing

“I try to pause and understand when someone approaches me about community engagement and [ask myself], What exactly do they mean? For me, it is about how you structure a project in the design phase and how you implement it over time. How do you encourage social cohesion through design?”
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Chris Adamick Designs for Life

“There is also a symbolic dimension to furniture where we can explore and communicate value sets through forms and materials. I feel that there is a mysterious quality to great furniture. It’s not just beauty paired with functionality but something else entirely.”
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Breland–Harper Mines the Past to Design a Better Future

All adaptive reuse projects “are bred with a measure of surprise,” says Breland. “Anachronistic building techniques, existing nonconforming conditions, deterioration, and structural failure—all add to the complexity of these projects.”
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Mae-ling Lokko Designs from the Ground Up

Mae-Ling Lokko’s work lays bare both the potential and challenges of using biomaterials in the built environment. As populations swell and the construction world grows ever hungrier, we’d be wise to take heed. 
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MODU Creates Architecture at the Threshold

MODU calles their approach “indoor urbanism,” which privileges the blurred boundary between interior space and exterior space. This space–straddling open and closed, artificial and natural–deserves architects’ keen attention, especially as the planet warms.
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Waechter Architecture Has An Expanded Vision for Mass Timber

Waechter has been studying and developing projects to expand knowledge of Mass Timber in Oregon and test its construction efficiencies, energy performance, and cultural and market adoption across design typologies.
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Shannon Goodman is Helping Make Material Reuse the Norm

Goodman and her team assess projects for deconstruction, help salvage and collect materials, store and redistribute those materials to nonprofits and disadvantaged communities, lead job trainings to create a workforce of people who are skilled in deconstruction and construction, and more. 
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Colombia’s Fundación Organizmo Builds for Planetary Well-being

ioneering educators in low-impact construction techniques, alternative technologies, and ecological restoration in Colombia, Organizmo has worked with communities to develop sustainable habitats and new modes of cultural expression.
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Billy Fleming and His Students Are Designing a Green New Deal

For the last several years, Fleming’s studio course titled “Designing a Green New Deal: The Spatial Politics of Our Response to Climate Change” has been exploring the roles designers will play in managing the nation’s response to climate change. 
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