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The Shakers: Culture, Craft, Community, and Care
Behind the separatist Christian sect that believed that every tool, object, and design choice should serve a purpose.
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Projects
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing: How a New Jacksonville Park Tells A Story
With typographic sculptures, restored architecture, and community programming, Hood Design Studio shows how small public spaces can advance reparative urbanism
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The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life
On NYC’s 400th birthday, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Weiss/Manfredi, and Marvel talk about civic spaces that shape the city's infrastructure.
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Profiles
At the Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore Connects Place and Memory
The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place grant-making program is transforming communities through storytelling, conservation, and design.
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Women Architects Struggled to Find a Home Within Modernism
American women offered a counterpoint to the boys club of the International Style, a new book says.
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Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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Projects
A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore
Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.
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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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Products
2 Books for Your Winter Reading List
These new must-read titles unpack the histories that shaped architecture and design today.
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Profiles
Beverly Willis: A Look Back at the Architect and Advocate
Explore the extraordinary life of Beverly Willis, who leaves behind an enduring legacy of groundbreaking contributions and a nonprofit dedicated to recognizing and advancing women in architecture.
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Viewpoints
Have You Been Inside a Gay Bar Recently?
With diverse approaches to design, politics, and history, the gay bar is undergoing an exciting creative evolution we should all be paying attention to.
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Products
Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair, a De Stijl Icon, Is Available Again
The Dutch designer's 1934 Crate Collection has been re-introduced courtesy of Danish furniture brand HAY and Rietveld Originals.
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Profiles
Rediscovering America’s First Independent Woman Architect
An exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design dives into the biography and legacy of a path-breaking architect.
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The Architect of Art Nouveau Who Brought Beauty to the Masses
Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York offers a reassessment of an often-overlooked designer who helped define the look of 20th-century Paris.
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Projects
Community Spirit Guides Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Healing Clinic
Rice Fergus Miller collaborates with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe to craft a new clinic influenced by traditional stories and the nearby Dungeness River.
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Viewpoints
How the Biplane Gave Americans a First Look At Urban Expansion
The poet and urban historian explains how the dramatic spectacle of early aviation provided a bird's eye view of 20th-century urban expansion.
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Viewpoints
How Black Designers and Architects are Reimagining Design
Here's our regularly updated chronicle of the Black architects, designers, and advocates reshaping design for equity and justice.
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Inside the Fight to Save Two Saarinen Churches in Columbus, Indiana
The small city has a wealth of modernist architecture, but preserving it isn’t always straightforward. The contrasting fates of two churches by Eero and Eliel Saarinen show why.
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How a Long-dead Russian Artist Is Influencing Cultural Preservation Efforts in Ukraine
Nicholas Roerich was a renowned painter, architect, and writer whose namesake pact called on countries to protect works of art and sites of cultural heritage during wartime.
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Profiles
Who Was Pritzker Prize-winning Architect B.V. Doshi?
On January 24, celebrated Indian architect and 2018 Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi passed away, leaving behind an illustrious 70-year architecture career.