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An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus

Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.

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Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the American Shopping Mall

In her new book, architecture critic Alexandra Lange explores the history of this quintessential symbol of the American dream.

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Surveying 100 Years of the Regional Plan Association

An exhibition takes a clear-eyed look at the Regional Plan Association's achievements and shortcomings, always with a focus on the future.

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A New Book Illustrates the Past Half-Century’s Various “Offices of the Future”

The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work explores how design and technology have transformed how and where we work through a wide and diverse collection of groundbreaking offices.

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Exploring the Sculptural in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Photographs

In a new retrospective, the German husband and wife duo’s images continue to ask questions about beauty, function, and form.

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An Exhibition at Manhattan’s Drawing Center Cultivates a Gloriously Unruly History of Ornament

The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present revives a more inclusive history of ornamentation across the globe.

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The Bronx Was Built by Transit

Building the Bronx, an exhibition by the New York Transit Museum shows how horsecars, subways, and a monorail helped create the borough we know today.

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Four Design Destinations to Supplement Salone

Away from the sprawling furniture fair, Salone del Mobile offers the cultural centers of Milan an occasion to show off to design-minded visitors from around the world.

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What is Queer Space?

Metropolis selects over a dozen stories from its archive that celebrate the past, present, and future of queer space and LGBTQ+ designers.

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Behind the Scenes of Hollywood

A new South Florida exhibition celebrates the value and artistry of the lifelike artwork behind some of Hollywood’s most beloved movie scenes.

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A New Book Examines Peter Shire’s Legacy

Peter Shire: Towers with Ranch Dressing evaluates the ways in which towers have influenced the artist’s work as signifiers of “nostalgia, joy, memory, and anxiety.” 

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How Black Creatives 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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A New Book Sheds Light on Russel and Mary Wright’s Unconventional Home

The midcentury design power couple's upstate New York was a laboratory for experimentation with natural materials.