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an alternative design proposal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anything but LAC-luster

Finalists in the LACMA Not LackMA protest design competition unveiled

April 29, 2020

Rendering of different pods lit in neon lights

The Future of Work Work Work Work Work

Practice, Product, Protocol makes the immaterial tangible

April 22, 2020

an illustration of a speculative coronavirus floating container ship emergency hospital

COVID’s Creative Outpouring

Check out the speculative design concepts that have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic

April 22, 2020

Rendering of the exterior of a grimy apartment tower in Singapore

Climate Futures

Superflux brings climate change home in a speculative Singapore apartment

January 17, 2020

Rendering of a field full of solar panels, part of a SCI-arc presentation

Literal World-building

SCI-Arc launches new program on emerging topics in landscape architecture

December 5, 2019

Gateway to Other Futures

A St. Louis symposium imagines alternate urban futures inspired by Afrofuturism

June 13, 2018

SCI-Arc show postulates a fictional energy future that doesn’t go far enough

April 11, 2018

(Jackson Rollings/AN)

Queens Museum show brings unrealized architecture to life

September 14, 2017

William Zeckendorf's 1945 idea for a $3 Billion Manhattan and East River airport. This project can be found at the Never Built New York exhibition in Queens. (Metropolis Books)

Theory vs. Practice

What happened to speculation in architecture?

August 31, 2017

Chicago Architectural Club calls for speculative proposals on Obama Library

November 17, 2014

CO2ngress Gateway by Danny Mui & Benjamin Sahagun.

On View> Unseen City: Designs for a Future Chicago

June 26, 2012