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Avinash Rajagopal
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Products
Flos’s Bilboquet Table Lamp Is Radical in its Simplicity
Design for disassembly, the Philippe Malouin–designed ball-and-socket joint lamp is both functional and sustainable.
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Viewpoints
Can Designers Find New Beauty in Circularity?
METROPOLIS's July/August 2023 issue looks at the many benefits of circular, regenerative design—including new forms of pleasure and delight.
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10 Provocations for Circular Design
METROPOLIS's editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal presents ten takes on the future of design and the circular economy.
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What’s the Future of the Workplace? Ask the Workers
Metropolis's May/June 2023 issue looks at the different levels of freedom and agency that workers have in a post-pandemic world.
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Long-Term Thinking from Design’s Next Generation
Prioritizing equity and sustainability, the portfolios of Metropolis’s 2023 Future100 students offer a glimpse of what’s next in architecture and design.
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3 Products from Milan Design Week 2023 for a Circular Future
These furniture and lighting breakthroughs from Salone del Mobile and other design fairs in Milan this year prepare us for the circular economy.
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Projects
This Food Rescue Nonprofit’s HQ Offers Beauty During a Crisis
City Harvest's Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights themes of reuse, reclamation, and recycling.
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Viewpoints
How Architects Can Design for Systems Change
The November/December issue of Metropolis looks at the architects and designers challenging the notion of a barrier between "natural" and "built" environments.
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Viewpoints
15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023
These must-read articles will give you all the inspiration and motivation you need to start the new year right.
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Viewpoints
Examining the Intersection of Health and Design
The September/October issue of Metropolis takes a global look at how the work of architects and designers is impacting people’s health and well-being.
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The Future of American Design Is Reinvention, Reuse, and Renewal
The July/August issue of Metropolis celebrates the American tradition of confronting history with creativity.
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What Is Good Interior Design?
The May/June issue of Metropolis asks how the design industry can create spaces for everyone.
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Viewpoints
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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Viewpoints
The Road to the Metaverse
Metropolis' January/February issue explores the Metaverse, diving into the future of design as the edges between virtual and physical worlds continue to blur.
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Profiles
Two Platforms Help Designers Specify Low-Carbon Interiors
Reseat harnesses the used furniture market to promote reuse, while Design for Health deciphers the sea of sustainability labels and certifications many products boast.
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Viewpoints
Architecture and Design Has a Different Supply Chain Issue—2022 Might be the Year to Tackle It
Metropolis's November/December 2021 issue gathers frameworks, resources, researchers, and tools to tackle the health, climate, and equity impacts of the materials and processes that go into buildings and interiors.
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15 Must-Reads to Help You Prepare for 2022
With insightful analysis, critical perspectives, and in-depth reporting, Metropolis contributors give you the tools you need for the year ahead.
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Programs
Metropolis Kicks Off Its Journey To Carbon Neutrality
We are beginning the process of assessing and reducing our carbon footprint, starting by offsetting the emissions associated with our two most recent publications.
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Viewpoints
What Does the Future Hold for Contract Interiors?
The September/October issue of Metropolis explores ideas for a healthier, digital-infused, climate-positive future.
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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.