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Against the Studio Mystique

The online tools honed during the pandemic will still serve us when it’s over

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Architecture Depends

As the pandemic deepens, architecture will need to make peace with contingencies

A Post-Pandemic Present

Architecture has the technology and tools to make the best of a bad situation. Will it?

Post-Pandemic Potentials

The pandemic changed everything—or so we thought

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Your Internet Connection Is Unstable

The pandemic put a strain on our digital infrastructures, especially in under-served communities

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Our Mass Timber Future

Op-ed: The upshot of Sidewalk Labs’ canceled Toronto project

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Wait, it Won't?

Opinion: No, ‘PR-chitecture’ won’t save us from the pandemic

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Editorial Invitorial

Cultural sites under attack in the age of unaccountability

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Just Don’t

Los Angeles is at a crossroads—don’t let it become New York

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Invasion of The Supertalls

A new breed of skyscraper threatens to devastate the fabric of New York

A train streaming along the California coast, threatened by sea level rise
California Dreaming

How is California dealing with its disappearing coast?

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In Memoriam

Robert E. Somol pens an open letter to the departed Stanley Tigerman

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Yikers Rikers

We need to rethink the Rikers Island replacement jails

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New Thinking Needed

Zumthor’s LACMA proposal is an affront to L.A.’s architectural and cultural heritage

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Goodbye to You

Yet another design nonprofit leaves the street

Pereira’s Times Mirror Square
Better Late Than Never

Opinion: It’s time to recognize Pereira’s LA Times building

Zero Tolerance

Why are architecture’s major professional organizations silent on the immigrant detention debate?

Inclusion in Architecture

Why are there so few disabled architects and architecture students?