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The 2021 Building Boom That No One Talked About

Despite continued uncertainty, U.S. construction is spiking at an almost unprecedented rate. Critic Ian Volner examines why we need to pay closer attention.

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The Case for a Public Design Education

The chair of City Tech's Department of Architectural Technology outlines how public education coupled with direct personal experience is critical to equitable urban development.

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Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era

Hana Kassem, principal at KPF, and Jonsara Ruth, cofounder of Parsons’ Healthy Materials Lab, outline the effects of the built environment on our well-being.

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On this Fourth of July, Remember that Public Space is Democracy’s Great Stage

Making public space unwelcome is a perversion of its purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.

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What Architects Need to Know about Carbon

Opinion: Prompted by the latest issue of Log, Mario Carpo offers a primer for understanding the nuances of carbon and “carbon form.”

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“Keep Off the Grass”: Why Fighting for Free Access to Green Space Implicates Us All

In an opinion piece for Metropolis, Alexandra Hagen, CEO of Swedish firm White Arkitekter, explains why countering commercial forces is central to protecting urban space.

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A New Idea in Architecture? No New Buildings

The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.

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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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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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The Problem with the “Designification” of Health Care

A new wave of clinics is using design to attract patients frustrated with old-guard medical facilities. But is further commodification of health care the answer?

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50 Years After Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s Ideas Still Define Landscape Architecture

McHarg's faith in science and rationality may seem quaint, but his political activism has never been more timely.

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Year in Review 2018: Architecture’s Gender Reckoning

Mimi Zeiger writes how the hard work of #MeToo is decidedly less swift and less spectacular than any celebrity takedown.

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Year in Review 2018: Rise of the Alt-Arch

Opinion: The “alt-arch” is the meme-strewn corner of the Internet devoted to the far right’s fetish for the castellated, the timber-thatched, the Baroque, the architecture of authority.

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Year in Review 2018: The Style of Our Time Is Reuse

Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.

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Year in Review 2018: Whose Resilient Future?

Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.

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Year in Review 2018: Shift Practice to Shift the Landscape

Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.

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Year in Review 2018: Putting Design Back to Work

Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.

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Year in Review 2018: The Myth of Age in Architectural Practice

Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.