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Books
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Viewpoints
David Gissen on Constructing an Architecture of Disability
The designer, historian, and educator speaks with Metropolis about his new book and the importance of centering disability in design practice and education.
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Two Books Chronicle the Changes Sweeping Cities
New volumes from Princeton Architectural Press and Verso offer insights into how the synergistic crises of gentrification and global warming are remaking urban areas.
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Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s Spatializing Justice Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium
In their latest book, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman propose a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
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10 New Architecture and Design Books to Read this Fall
Metropolis editors select the best fall and winter releases from the top art, architecture, and design publishers.
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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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9 Books to Add to Your Architecture and Design Reading List
Metropolis editors select the best summer and fall releases from the top art, architecture, and design publishers.
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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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A New Book Examines Peter Shire’s Legacy
Peter Shire: Towers with Ranch Dressing evaluates the ways in which towers have influenced the artist’s work as signifiers of “nostalgia, joy, memory, and anxiety.”
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10 Architecture and Design Books to Add to your Spring Reading List
Metropolis editors have gathered ten new and upcoming architecture and design books that are must-reads for Spring 2022.
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Can Architecture and Design Facilitate Healing?
Through a new book and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, MASS Design Group explores the history of hospital architecture and the design of healing.
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9 Books for Your Winter Reading List
Metropolis editors have selected a variety of new and forthcoming titles to get you through the season.
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Projects
26 Case Studies in Design for Impact
Metropolis's Design for Impact showcases how innovative architects and interior designers are leading the charge in creating a healthy, just, and sustainable world.
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13 Architecture and Design Books to Add to Your Reading List
Metropolis editors have selected a variety of current and forthcoming titles that will be sure to get you through 2021.
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Barbara Bestor on Du Bois’s Data Portraits
The Los Angeles–based architect shares how this collection of infographics and visionary drawings kept her mind busy during quarantine
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From Victorian Gardens to Corporate Biophilia, Nature Inside Unearths a History of Interior Plantings
Despite differences in motivation, context, and aims, Penny Sparke shows that bringing flora inside stands as a token of unspoiled nature, a reminder of what’s gone.
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Strelka Institute’s Three-Year Research Agenda Culminates with The New Normal
Headed up by Benjamin H. Bratton, the research rubric and yearbook-like release collate "fungible platforms" that investigate data's role in global spatial restructuring.
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Profiles
Q&A: The Blueprint for Hip-Hop Architecture
With the publication of his new book Hip-Hop Architecture, architect and Syracuse University professor Sekou Cooke cements the legitimacy of a proactive design concept.
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A New Book Points to Unconventional Ways that Architecture Shapes Society
Radical Architecture of the Future by Beatrice Galilee highlights more than 75 projects that spur social and political change.
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Profiles
Q&A: Mariana Mogilevich on New York City’s Path to a More Democratic and Diverse Civic Realm
Upon the release of her book The Invention of Public Space, the architectural historian discusses a little-known but pivotal chapter of urban history.
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A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser’s Designs
Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."