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Solving Problems Together

AN in conversation with Kimberly Dowdell

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A Lot To Unpack

Here are the polarizing and provocative controversies that defined 2022

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Triumphs and Tribulations

Here are AN’s top news stories of 2022

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Controversies, Commissions, and Competitions

Daily digest: World Cup migrant worker fatalities, introducing the Huckabee College of Architecture at Texas Tech, and more news

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Gobble, Gobble

Daily digest: The New School professors on strike, Airbnb cofounder designs customizable residential units, and more

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Kind Tech

2022 ACADIA conference, Hybrids & Haecceities, covers extra-disciplinary collaboration, the importance of tiny things, and the ethics of artificial intelligence

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Fair Trade

Landscape architecture design studio Terremoto addresses labor exploitation in its industry

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Transparency is Key

Tom Wiscombe and Marrikka Trotter resign from SCI-Arc as the school implements changes after independent review

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Just Ahead of Labor Day...

In an industry first, employees of New York–based Bernheimer Architecture unionize and join the IAMAW

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Another Base

In response to the SCI-Arc Basecamp controversy, here’s an alternate list of advice for those heading into the profession

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Bartlett Breakdown and Beyond

A new generation of young architects is calling out exploitation in education and practice. Not everyone is happy with their methods.

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A Just Remedy

Amnesty International calls for $440 million compensation fund for migrant workers ahead of FIFA World Cup 2022

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Full Circle

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

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Labor Parti

AIA must do more to address exploitative workplace conditions, some members say

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Breaking

What is going on at SCI-Arc?

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Or Can It?

“Can this be? Surely this cannot be?” explores the history of architecture unionization across the pond

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Accelerating Change

Grace Farms will host the inaugural Design for Freedom Summit on March 31

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Bargaining for Better

Unionization at SHoP Architects stalled out, but architecture’s labor movement is far from over

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