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History
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An A-to-Z Guide to the America We Want to Build
For the United States’ 250th anniversary, METROPOLIS highlights the designers and ideas shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and imaginative future for the built environment.
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Profiles
What Is the True Value of Existing Buildings?
The Built Buildings Lab is helping broaden the preservation movement by overlaying the cultural, economic, and environmental significance of old buildings.
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The Shakers: Culture, Craft, Community, and Care
Behind the separatist Christian sect that believed that every tool, object, and design choice should serve a purpose.
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In Collaboration with Teknion, SOM Reissues Designs from Its Archive
The new Ikon collection revisits work from SOM’s long-unsung interiors division, originally created for powerhouse clients, including Halston and IBM.
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Products
From Skyscrapers to Chairs: Rewriting SOM’s American Design Legacy
An exhibition by Rarify reframes SOM’s philosophy of total design by reassessing decades of forgotten furniture and interiors.
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Projects
Turkey’s Ephesus Experience Museum has Learnt History’s Lessons
With a building designed for disassembly and a cutting-edge virtual experience, this museum is the perfect response to Ephesus’s 3000-year history.
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The Politics of Adobe Architecture
Recent scholarship on earth architecture in America highlights larger issues concerning power, extraction, and Indigenous resistance to the settler state and capitalism.
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Projects
Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?
With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city.
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How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History
This year's sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters are the latest in an ongoing relationship between architecture and science fiction.
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Projects
How Midsize Cities Are Driving America’s Urban Transformation
Explore how American cities with populations under 1 million are reimagining themselves with bold projects and policies, and driving urban transformation and innovation.
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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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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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Projects
Finding Purpose in the Quotidian Relics of “Postmodernization”
A new book from the Canadian Centre for Architecture gathers the "obsolete artifacts" often overlooked by Postmodernism's historians.
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Viewpoints
With the Reissue of Reyner Banham’s Classic, Tracing the Megastructural Moment
The recent reissue of Banham's Megastructure helps mine the typology's precedents and points toward the ambitious movement's contemporary heirs.
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Viewpoints
The Task at Hand: 100 Years of the Adjustable Desk Lamp
A technological breakthrough and a little-acknowledged bellwether of Modernism, the task lamp finally gets its due.
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How Russian Architects Tried to Build a New Socialist World Using “America” as Their Guide
Americanizm , an exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, examines the USSR's ardent fascination with American technology and culture.
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Profiles
Ken Isaacs Wanted to Retool the Way We Live
A new book revisits the designer's visionary work, which advanced everything from flexible, “living” structures to microhouses.
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That ’70s Thing: Why Young Architects Today Are Enthralled by Vintage Technologies
Designers have fixated on the visual culture that wrought Casio wrist watches and Superstudio. Mario Carpo explores the reasons why.
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Viewpoints
In X-Ray Architecture, the Metaphor Escapes Control
Beatriz Colomina's new book overlooks the concrete cruelties of the designed environment.
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Viewpoints
Sitting Alone in Public: How the Café Chair Defined Modern Urban Culture
Beginning with Thonet's innovations two centuries ago, the development of the café chair typology reflects upheavals in cities and design.