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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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New Exhibition Explores Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic Architecture—and the Slaves Who Built It
In "Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals," the uplifting content of early American civic buildings is offset by the reality of enslaved labor.
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Far from Being a Temple to Rationality, the Bauhaus Was a “Cauldron of Perversions”
Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina explores how the Bauhaus harbored deeply transgressive ideas and pedagogies.
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For a Time, Josep Lluís Sert’s Brawny Buildings Defined Modern Boston
Through his campus work, Sert left an incredible built legacy on the Boston area. But his building have taken some getting used to.
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Bucharest’s MARe Museum Is a Ghostly Shadow of Its Nation’s Dark History
The museum, which seeks to generate conversations about Romania's communist past, re-creates the house of a ruthless government minister.
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How Landscape Architecture Hoped to Save the City
An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Pioneering Sustainable Building That Still Inspires Pilgrimages
Spread out on a field in Michigan, Herman Miller's GreenHouse facility helped popularize sustainable building practices.
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10 Buildings That Helped Define Modernism in New York City
The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.