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Viewpoints
Grace La on Eileen Gray’s E-1027 Table
The chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD reflects on the Irish architect's iconic design.
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Profiles
Khoi Vo On Mario Gooden’s Signature
The CEO of the American Society of Interior Designers discusses the impact of Mario Gooden's work and mentorship.
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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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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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Profiles
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.