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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."