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What Would Aline Do?

The lives of subject and author unfold in parallel in Eva Hagberg’s intimate biography of Aline Louchheim Saarinen

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Architect of the State

A new book explores the life and career of Boris Iofan, the Jewish Soviet architect who designed for Stalin’s regime

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Behind The Line

The visions for NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s linear megacity in the desert, reveal contemporary shortcomings more than a future utopia

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Could This Be Architecture?

Elden Ring has a lot to teach architects about immersive digital space

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Robot Order

The first book about British postmodernist John Outram captures his eclectic stylings

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The Right Relationship With Change

Queer Spaces makes room for the term’s inherent expansiveness

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Beyond Base and Superstructure

In a series of brilliant essays, Critique of Architecture bursts the post-critical bubble

Modernity for the Masses

A new book explores Antonio Bonet’s grand plans for Buenos Aires public housing

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More Than Skin-Deep

Eight years after its first appearance at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s theory of facades is given its due

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Potemkin Village

The curious case of a Wisconsin canton and its legally sanctioned “Swiss” architecture raises questions about identity construction

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Fields, Fragments, Fictions

A new exhibition showcases the remarkable paintings of OMA co-founder Zoe Zenghelis

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BIG Toothpaste

Bjarke Ingels Group’s virtual headquarters for Vice Media disappoints on every level

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Nature × Humanity

Neri Oxman’s exhibition at SFMOMA pushes material limits amid apocalyptic visions

On View

MoMA exhibition on building and decolonization in South Asia raises questions about the authentically hopeful architecture of nation-building

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Picking a Fight

A new book argues that architecture desperately needs fixing. But what if it needs breaking instead?

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Building Socialism

East German architecture leaves a lingering legacy in Vietnam

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How To Archive A Plague

Adelita Husni Bey examines pandemics past, present, and future at the Brooklyn Army Terminal

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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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