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Noteworthy
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Profiles
MASS Design Principal Katie Swenson on the Scarab
The architect and author explains the personal significance the scarab beetle bears for her and her family.
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Julie Bargmann on Clogs as a Portal to Honoring Past Generations
The founder of D.I.R.T. Studio and inaugural winner of the Oberlander Prize for Landscape Architecture describes finding signs of life among post industrial ruins.
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Carol Ross Barney On the Design Lesson in an Elephant’s Skull
The architect explains how anthropogenic designs can draw on the efficient elegance of naturally occurring structures.
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Viewpoints
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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Viewpoints
Virginia San Fratello on Wandering in the Age of Covid
The architect-designer explicates the connections between wandering around Colorado's San Luis Valley and her experiments in 3D printing.
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Suchi Reddy on a Carl Auböck Paperweight
The founder of design firm Reddymade relates the form of the iconic paperweight to the "hand" of both designers and end users.
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Anna Puigjaner on the Social Meaning of Cooking Buckets
The Barcelona-based architect and researcher discusses how her travels in the Casamance, Senegal, illuminated a broader role of cooking buckets.
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Justin Garrett Moore on the Work of Artist Alteronce Gumby
The executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission reflects on how a painting forms a personal backdrop to the pandemic and this year's protests for racial justice.
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Profiles
Noteworthy: Artist Shinique Smith on Skins
Los Angeles–based visual artist discusses the surface as it relates to painting and assemblage.
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Designer Luke Pearson on a Found Wasp Nest
The cofounder of London design consultancy Pearson Lloyd contemplates the complex forms of a wasp nest that he found while working on a project.
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Tomás Saraceno on Beta Attenuation Mass Monitors
The Argentinian artist explores BAM-1020 machines for an upcoming exhibition at The Shed in New York.
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Products
Todd Bracher on the Acheulean Hand Ax
The New York City–based industrial designer marvels at the social impact of a 2-million-year-old tool.
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Profiles
José Esparza Chong Cuy on the Hearst Castle
The executive director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City waxes poetic on the rumored inspiration for Xanadu.
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Toshiko Mori on Collecting Wabanaki and Penobscot Baskets
The architect and Harvard GSD professor discusses the beauty and utility of Native American basketry.
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Products
Annabelle Selldorf on Compressed Earth Bricks
The architect discusses her fascination with this ancient and eco-friendly building material.
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Sarah Whiting on the Many Lives of a Simple Family Salad Bowl
The newly appointed dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design tells Metropolis about a beloved red dish.
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Jorge Otero-Pailos on the John Ruskin Painting That Inspires Him
The artist and GSAPP professor describes how a classic painting has impacted his own practice.
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Profiles
Joan Blumenfeld on Alice Neel’s Portrait of Andy Warhol
"The image stopped me in my tracks," says the global interior design director for Perkins+Will.
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Profiles
MoMA’s Martino Stierli on the Life and Work of Robert Venturi
The architecture and design curator reflects on a poignant portrait of the late architect, taken in the mid-'50s at the Acropolis.
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Projects
Cornell’s Incoming Architecture Dean on the Fanciful Dot Drawings of Bruno Munari
J. Meejin Yoon tells Metropolis how the Italian designer's whimsical book taught her about context, constraints, and imagination.