December 28, 2018
Year in Review 2018: 9 Lessons from Architecture, Design, and Cities
Metropolis tapped experts from across the design world to help articulate the year’s biggest takeaways—from resiliency to workplace productivity, diversity, and beyond.
2018 has been a big year—there have been revelations around architecture’s #MeToo moment, the social and urban ramifications of resilience planning, and the return of sustainable plastics, just to name a few.
In each of the essays below, our contributors dwell on these developments and explore how we should practice, frame, and respond to the challenges at hand.
You may also enjoy “Metropolis’s Best of 2018: The Year’s 6 Biggest Design Trends.”
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