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The Case for Trauma-Informed Design

Spaces created with comfort in mind make us feel safer, valued, and more connected to others

Barbiecore

What do Barbie and Playboy have in common? Apparently a lot.

On Doors and Redemption

Sean Joyner learns a lesson in the aisles of Home Depot

Building a Chair, Reframing a City

Architects imagine the collective rebuilding of Detroit through a design-build workshop

Logged In and Stressed Out

Shows like Severance and Succession offer workplace imaginaries amid the ongoing crisis of office space

Re: Letter From Italy

A reflection on the right to the city after the fifth edition of Alcova concluded in Milan

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AI All the Way

Translating from ChatGPT to Midjourney could be a productive part of early design thinking

Letter From Italy

Alcova, a temporary design exhibition in Milan, takes place within a wider context of real estate speculation

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Introducing Point Access Blocks

Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal? Here’s one reason

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Money Talk

Architects should design their businesses just like they design their buildings

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Curated Interference

Making the most of in-person educational encounters in a digital world

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Hustler Classicism

Why is there a shrunken replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple on West 51st Street?

A Man of Many Colors

Exploring how to celebrate Blackness without flattening it into a single category of experience

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Raiding the Met

WAI Architecture Think Tank’s studio at Columbia GSAPP explored postcolonial conditions through narrative means

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Blurring Transparent Glass

Advances in technology, along with societal concerns about sustainability, shape contemporary glazing applications

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Concerted Climate Action

Op-ed: Architecture can’t wait for regulators to lead on sustainability

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Bad Building

Architecture’s aesthetics should support, rather than sabotage, a building’s function

Met With Secrecy

The design competition for Montreal’s PHI Contemporary is public and transparent. Why can’t the Met do the same?

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