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At the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Wondering “Can Architects Curate?”

Despite some smart research, this edition's glut of information and ignorance of context reflects architecture's crisis of curation, our critic writes.

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Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Spatial Research and Urban Conflict

With an unabashed embrace of the empirical, contributors assert something about how space is experienced.

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This Time, the London Design Biennale Promises to Get Emotional

Themed “Emotional States,” the nearly three-week biennale will bring together 40 territories and institutions, asking them to consider how design intersects with the emotional.

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How Forensic Architecture Is Harnessing the Power of the Public to Investigate the Grenfell Tower Disaster

The architectural research organization has announced an open-ended, crowdsourced initiative to reconstruct and analyze the June 2017 blaze.

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In the Aftermath of Violence, Forensic Architecture Reconstructs the Truth

An expansive show at the ICA in London demonstrates how the activist research group uses spatial reconstructions to uncover human rights violations.