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Anjulie Rao

is a Chicago-based journalist and critic covering the built environment. She is the founder and editor of Weathered, a publication focused on cities and landscapes in the wintertime. Anjulie is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a columnist at ARCHITECT magazine. Her bylines can be found in Untapped Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, The Architectural Review, and The New York Review of Architecture, among others.
Latest Stories
Ethnographic Accounts

City Limits sees urban interstate development through the eyes of community organizers

Manica and the Chicago Bears renderings
Big Architectural Endeavor

Manica-designed Chicago Bears stadium could unravel policy-forward development in favor of a suburbanesque amusement park

Practicing Practice

A new wave of educators are updating how professional practice courses are delivered in architecture schools. What are they teaching?

Designing for Dignity

Deem’s first symposium gathered presenters with collaborative, community-oriented practices

What Good Design Won’t Fix

Forty-two finalists announced for Come Home, a housing ideas competition in Chicago

Pollutioncore

An exhibition by Himali Singh Soin at the Art Institute of Chicago situates viewers within mythic catastrophes

sketch of city
Ruincore

A career-spanning show of drawings by James Wines demonstrates his commitment to melding built and natural worlds

public space at the base of an atrium with tile flooring
So Long, Sbarro

Chicago’s Big Tech architectural marvel is an adaptive reuse win, but it could be a loss for the public

roof wood framing
More Than Just Wood

In Chicago, American Framing exposes the nation’s long-concealed construction method

rendering of a revitalized chicago streetscape
Trust the Process?

Chicago’s INVEST South/West yields early initial projects, but not without communication breakdowns along the way

The new steppenwolf theater, a sloped glass volume at night
It’s Magic

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s expansion of the Steppenwolf Theatre brings the backstage to the house

metal poles in a field arranged for exhibit columbus
New Middles

The 2021 edition of Exhibit Columbus asks “What Is the Future of the Middle City?”

In Minnesota, industrial steam billows behind a house, part of the scope of the 2021 exhibit columbus
Middle Waters

Exhibit Columbus explores the interconnected ecosystems and built environments of the Mississippi watershed

Tuskegee students working on window frame
These Walls Can Talk

At Tuskegee University, an architecture professor leverages historic preservation goals to meet community ones

House P, a large rectangular home with blue staircase
Not So Clear-Cut

Ply+ injects bold color and unique geometries into the design of a single-family home

Axonometric rendering of the love building, a new community center planted with trees
A Labor of Love

Community know-how and design expertise reinforce one another at this Detroit hub for social justice

Aerial photo of a health complex shaped like gabled houses designed by Mass
Texas Treatment

MASS Design Group’s first U.S. healthcare project is an inclusive Texan clinic

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