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Aaron Smithson

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A tower lit up for the 2020 tokyo olympics
Greenwashing The Games

How sustainable really were the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

A statue of robert e lee covered with a black tarp in front of an anti racism march against confederate monuments
To The Halls Of History

More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville’s toppled Confederate monuments

New in Nebraska

Snøhetta breaks ground on Joslyn Art Museum expansion in Omaha

rendering of a holocaust memorial made of 23 swooping bronze fins
Wrangling In Westminster

Adjaye and Arad’s controversial Holocaust memorial wins approval from U.K. Housing minister

An aztec archeological site being excavated
Back Underground

Mexico will re-bury an Aztec archaeological site due to lack of funds

A rendering of the repurposed Al-Nuri Mosque
Mosul Mistake?

UNESCO’s winning design for Mosul mosque reconstruction sparks outrage in Iraq

Deans On Design

More new deans discuss the pandemic, their institutions, and approaches to design education

An LA metro train chugging down the tracks
Keeping On

Planner Lily Song on continuing the push for anti-racist design

An aerial rendering of the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing.
Cougar Crossing

World’s largest wildlife crossing seeks funding for November groundbreaking near Los Angeles

Downtown denver skyline
Lots of Lots

Denver slashes minimum parking requirements for new developments to boost affordable housing

A public housing tower with a white stripe, one of many overseen by HUD
Safety Slip-Up?

HUD proposes looser safety requirements in public housing despite tenant concerns

exterior rendering of a history center with a cantilevered roof in tulsa
Road to Reparations

Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising museum strikes a nerve in a community still seeking justice

A recreation of several structures inside of an abandoned church
From Dancehalls to Detroit

Akeem Smith explores memory, Black diaspora, and Kingston’s dancehall scene in his Detroit exhibitions

A black and white photo of a youngish man, Sean Anderson
Off to Ithaca

Curator Sean Anderson leaves the MoMA to lead Cornell’s BArch program

A woman sitting in Elizabeth Street Garden
Haven For Whom?

New York’s proposed replacement of Elizabeth Street Garden with affordable housing sparks a difficult debate

Skyline of miami, threatened by sea level rise
Plan For The Worst

Miami unveils its 40-year mitigation plan to combat sea level rise

Looking down a long narrow gallery for Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture
Lost Lines

Linee Occulte at New York’s Citygroup explores the unseen in architecture

Sekou Cooke in a gray suit in front a window
Dean's List, Again

This year’s new deans share their thoughts on their institutions and the path forward

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