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SO – IL founders in architecture studio
Full Disclosure

AN speaks with SO – IL about its controversial job posting and wider structural issues in the profession

construction of towers in egypt
Egypt’s Next Capital

A new government center is under construction in the desert east of Cairo. It has issues.

aerial shot of a large park with a land bridge under construction in houston
Landscape as Infrastructure

Seeing landscape architecture as part of our nation’s essential infrastructure only deepens its relevance today

aerial view of suburban sprawl
RIP American Dream

Why you can’t afford a home, and why you shouldn’t want one

Three Women Deans

Recent academic departures offer lessons about how architectural education should change

rendering of a police training facility
Cop Academy

An expanded scope for a training facility in Chicago raises questions about how—and if—architects should engage with carceral projects

rendering of a dense, mixed-use urban neighborhood
The Goldilocks Framework

How to respond to both population growth and climate change? High-density, low-rise housing plus current technologies offer one solution.

nft art
Can Architects Learn From Generative Art?

As conversations about NFTs proliferate, lessons about algorithmic collaboration abound

Day's end, an ethereal pier on the hudson river
Viewing Machine

David Hammons’s impressive Day’s End fails to live up to the impossible hopes of a previous generation

an aerial rendering of governors island built up with educational buildings
Treasure Island

Op-ed: The Governors Island rezoning is Bill de Blasio’s good-bye gift to real estate

Rendering of a timber canopy atop a smart city cover
Against the Smart Worldview

Smartness already defines our cities, just not in the way Sidewalk Labs and others would have you think

Black and white screencap of a berlin housing development on television
Prestige TV

Television cemented the idea that architecture was both a rarefied art and key to the good life

Interior of the Donald Judd Foundation home in New York, a blue and pink-lit bedroom
Posthumous Collaborations

Adam Yarinsky reflects on ARO’s work in spaces originally shaped by Donald Judd and Mark Rothko

Photo of airplane wings hanging and used as desks
At CAC

Retrospective of Valdas Ozarinskas considers an architect without architecture

Photo of John Hancock Tower
Corn on the Cobb

Henry N. Cobb reflects on Hancock Tower

The remnants of Palestinian homes that were bulldozed in 2004 to create the road known as
Habitats for Humanity

How to consider architecture and “humanitarian space”

A group of students
Moving Forward

How can architects build the equitable discipline we deserve?

RIP

Remembering Jay Baldwin, experimental geodesic dome champion

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