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Ryan Scavnicky

is the founder of Extra Office, a design practice which engages developments in contemporary media to uncover new channels for architectural content. He currently teaches architecture design, theory, and criticism at Kent State University.
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Tabletop Wargaming set-up
Make Your Model

Tabletop Wargaming’s vast worlds are brought to life by leveraging skills often cultivated in architecture school

Pondering

The Sphere opens in Las Vegas. What does it mean for architecture?

Biennale, Baby!

Exploring Venice with an infant means setting aside the stroller and viewing the exhibitions differently

The Wrapper by Eric Owen Moss Architects
(W)rapper’s Delight

Eric Owen Moss Architects completes a new office tower in South Central Los Angeles

Super Nintendo World
Flattened & Re-enchanted

Super Nintendo World is a visual feast of worldbuilding, nostalgia, and gamification

yellow text the metaverse irl laid over view of las vegas cityscape
The Metaverse IRL

Why another look at Las Vegas helps us understand how most virtual environments fall short

grey toned scene of building breaking apart
Could This Be Architecture?

Elden Ring has a lot to teach architects about immersive digital space

a diptich with a diagrammatic building with what looks like a colon running through it
BIG Toothpaste

Bjarke Ingels Group’s virtual headquarters for Vice Media disappoints on every level

Rendering of the Liberland Metaverse. (ZHA)
Regressive Fantasy

Patrik Schumacher’s Liberland Metaverse is pure cringe

metaverses rendering showing a swooping canopy
Getting Meta

Metaverses and NFTs use digital architecture, but what do they have to do with real life?

Screenshot of the game control showing a woman standing in front of a channel carved concrete wall
Taking Control Of The Narrative

Brutalism bolstered Control’s success, but why is the movement still so trendy?

Looking out of a window in cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunked

Cyberpunk 2077 is an architecture critique with nothing to say

Looking into a sloped room with simple furniture at Taliesin West
Major League

Opinion: Shame on the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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