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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

Reflective building facade
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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Full Circle

By redrawing the way we design, build, and “unbuild,” circularity could reduce forced labor in the building industry

The Politics of Memory

Calls for a permanent COVID memorial neglect our fragmented political culture and the long road to recovery that lies ahead

The vessel, a bronzed target of attack for architecture criticism in recent years
Real Talk

Op-ed: Who cares if a building is advancing a theoretical architectural idea if that idea looks bad?

a flooded freeway in new york left submerged by hurricane ida, emblematic of the climate crisis
Break the Cycle

Opinion: We can’t pedal our way out of the climate crisis

four panel deck park diagram for el paso
Cover-Up Job

Deck parks are increasingly in vogue in the Southwest’s downtown cores, but aren’t a good fit for El Paso

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You Say You Want A Revolution

Utopian politics makes a uniquely rotten pairing with architecture

architectural rendering of the two glass towers by the Botanic Garden
Garden variety

Op-ed: New York City developments that impinge on important institutions or iconic views should be rejected

Inside the kpf world bank hq, a high-tech landmark in dc
High-Tech Imperium

Op-ed: D.C. is known for its classical and Brutalist buildings, but its true legacy is high-tech architecture

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Cities Without Stories

Op-ed: South Asia needs to preserve its disappearing modernist history

A green collection of houses in the netherlands, naturally resistant to climate change
Shades of Green

Op-ed: Attempting to redefine the meaning of “green” could weaken efforts to mitigate climate change

a person holding a model globe, but not bjarke ingels's masterplanet
Little BIG Planet

Op-ed: With Masterplanet, Bjarke Ingels’s architecture has become universal—and incapable of admitting difference

computer rendering of a contemporary library with large windows, disparaged by president trump
Window Dressing

Op-ed: Trump says Dems want to ban windows. He couldn’t be more wrong.

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This Brutal World

Public opinion has softened its views on Brutalism. That isn’t enough to stay the wrecking ball.

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