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MOS’s New Book On Public Space, Power, and Communication 

Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith from MOS architects make the case for evidence-based city design—and reveal how public space is shaped by power, ownership, and use.

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Lessons in Global Design from Expo 2025 Osaka

What this year’s pavilions revealed about culture, sustainability, and the future of architecture. 

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Finding Beauty in Climate Futures

Five recent exhibitions, books, and initiatives highlight utopian visions of design that leaves a positive impact on the environment. 

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Two Monographs Showcase Design that Does Good

West coast firms Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and David Baker Architects both have new monographs out with Oro Editions.

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7 Places to Look for Design Inspiration

ThinkLab’s U.S. Design Industry Benchmark Report for 2023 reveals the top places architects and designers look to kindle creativity. 

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Three Insights into the Future of Product Specification from ThinkLab’s Hackathon

A new book titled 100 Ways to Maximize Your Physical, Digital and Human Assets shares how designers are rethinking specification in the “phygital” era.

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A New Book by Shannon Mattern Reveals the Consequences of ‘Smart Cities’

A City Is Not a Computer reassesses computational models of urbanism, arguing the impossibility of summarizing our messy cities with tidy narratives.

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Echo’s Chambers Investigates Architecture’s Aural Dimension

A new volume charts the ever-changing relationship between architecture and acoustics from Borromini to Corbusier.

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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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A New Book Chronicles the History of Cranbrook Academy of Art

With Eyes Opened includes profiles of 200 artists associated with the influential art school over more than eighty years. 

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Strelka Institute’s Three-Year Research Agenda Culminates with The New Normal

Headed up by Benjamin H. Bratton, the research rubric and yearbook-like release collate "fungible platforms" that investigate data's role in global spatial restructuring.

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Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?

Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture and design firms across the country have shared numerous toolkits and manuals, but will they help build a future rooted in equity?

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Emerging Designers and Major Brands Alike Are Redefining What It Means to be Sustainable

The recently-released book Radical Matter by London consultancy FranklinTill surveys a major shift in material thinking.

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The Indiana Magazine Highlighting its State’s Oft-Overlooked Architecture and Design Luminaries

Brothers Jon and James Sholly are founders of the Indianapolis-based graphic design studio Commercial Artisan, so when they launched Commercial Article, an offshoot publication, in 2005, they understandably saw it as a s

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A New Book Tells the Story of a Modernist Mall Turned Political Prison

The building, El Helicoide, is an especially striking example of failed Modernism, one that multiple scholars are seeking to unpack and explore.

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Legendary Graphic Design Firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv Is Releasing a 60-Year Monograph

The New York firm, founded in 1957 and still in operation, has produced many iconic logos for corporate America.