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Garden variety

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

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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

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Little BIG Planet

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

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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.

photo of overflowing trash in Prospect Park, one of many affected NYC parks
Sanctuaries of Sanity

Op-ed: NYC, don’t give up on parks when we need them most

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Mixed Methods

How hybrid teaching could help reinvent architectural education

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Missing Middle

Opinion: The answer to America’s housing crisis might be hiding in plain sight

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Contemplating COVID

Opinion: A COVID-19 Memorial could capture the passions coursing through American society

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Don't Look Back

The pandemic can break architectural education out of the cloister for good

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

Sidewalk labs timber town, Quayside
Our Mass Timber Future

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

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