Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...
Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...
On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...
At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...
The ocean remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us of its influence—a lost airplane, a shark attack, an oil spill, an underwater earthquake—but we tend to ...
Wildfires are nothing new in Los Angeles. Nor is the overlap between fire and the cultural imagination in Southern California ...
In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood in the middle of the narrow straits, had ...
Having taught the reuse and reinvention of different types of structures at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design ...
It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...
NOTE: Sale of this issue is open to PREORDERS only. Copies will ship out sometime around mid-November 2025. Put the […] ...
Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...
If labor power—that is, a population’s potential to produce—was and is the most important form of “production,” the most central productive space is the house itself. Dogma, proposal for the ...
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