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Viewpoints
How Can We Celebrate Craft in Architecture Today?
The designers of some of the most beautifully crafted buildings and spaces in New York City convened to discuss the role of artistry in architecture.
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The Productive Tension of Prefabrication
Casa Guadalupe by HANGHAR pairs the logic of industrial building with a softer domestic language, revealing how prefab architecture, and design practices, can negotiate both rigor and warmth.
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Profiles
Architecture by, for, and with America’s First Communities
Indigenous architects have methods and perspectives that could shape the future of the built environment.
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Liam Young Is World-Building With Spatial Design
As the climate crisis shifts from a technological problem to a crisis of imagination, the architect and film director calls on designers to construct new planetary narratives.
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Inside Autodesk’s Sustainability Vision—and Actions
Joe Speicher, Autodesk’s chief sustainability officer, discusses how integrating AI and cloud tools can make sustainable design measurable and achievable across the built environment.
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Can AI Save Us From Designing Ourselves to Extinction?
Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson of Cove talk climate action, cost optimization, and why technology is our best hope for sustainable building.
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For Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture is the “Art of Survival”
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Award winner talks to METROPOLIS about our changing planet, his “Sponge City” concept, and nature-based solutions to urban planning.
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Everyone Should Have Access to the Power of Good Lighting
Driven by a social-justice agenda, Los Angeles design studio Chromatic asserts that "light privilege" is just another form of environmental racism.
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Profiles
Shigeru Ban Is Unimpressed by the Mass-Timber Boom
The Pritzker Prize–winning maestro of timber architecture, Shigeru Ban reflects on a career spent designing with wood and weighs in on contemporary mass timber buildings.
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Dolores Hayden on the Politics of Care
Following her recent Vincent Scully Prize win, the architect and urban historian spoke with Metropolis about the infrastructure of care, material feminists, and aviation poetry.
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On the Road or In the Air, Daniel Kaven Sees the Journey as Destination
The Portland architect's new book, Architecture of Normal, explores how transit shapes development in the American West and offers a cautionary tale about the future.
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NADAAA and Moody Nolan Reflect on their New Project at the Met
The two architecture firms plan to the keep the emphasis on the design process—by making it a collective one.
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Profiles
Whether it’s Music, Painting, or Writing, Architect Anthony Poon Has a Story to Tell
Founder of Los Angeles firm Anthony Poon Design, the interdisciplinary architect discusses his first novel, the relationship between architecture and music, and designing for everyone.
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Zoe Zenghelis on Pursuing Creative Freedom
Painter and cofounder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture spoke with Metropolis about the early days of OMA, pursuing a career as an artist, and her new solo show at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
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For Multi-Hyphenate Designer Alex Proba, No Surface Goes Untouched
Founder of Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn-based Studio Proba sits down with Metropolis to discuss her expansive practice, marketing product design in digital environments, and embracing failure.
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French Designer Audrey Large Aims to Challenge Perceptions of Reality
Large talks to Metropolis about the difference between digital and physical exhibitions, "vibrant matter", and designing objects using cinematic processes.
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Profiles
Cheryl Durst Talks Agency, Equity, and Why IIDA Is Engaging Kids
The IIDA's vice president and CEO discusses inclusion, a new pipeline for young talent, and her hopes for the upcoming year.
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Q&A: Vinu Daniel on Building with Mud, Brick, and Waste
Making use of readily available resources, the Indian architect advocates for the value of earth and waste as building materials.
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Q&A: Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner on American Framing
Kate Wagner spoke with the curators of the U.S. Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale about broader issues of labor, democracy, and suburbia.
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Profiles
Q&A: The Blueprint for Hip-Hop Architecture
With the publication of his new book Hip-Hop Architecture, architect and Syracuse University professor Sekou Cooke cements the legitimacy of a proactive design concept.