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AI generation of a mixed use building
AI All the Way

Translating from ChatGPT to Midjourney could be a productive part of early design thinking

Letter From Italy

Alcova, a temporary design exhibition in Milan, takes place within a wider context of real estate speculation

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Introducing Point Access Blocks

Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal? Here’s one reason

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Money Talk

Architects should design their businesses just like they design their buildings

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Curated Interference

Making the most of in-person educational encounters in a digital world

Hustler Club
Hustler Classicism

Why is there a shrunken replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple on West 51st Street?

A Man of Many Colors

Exploring how to celebrate Blackness without flattening it into a single category of experience

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Raiding the Met

WAI Architecture Think Tank’s studio at Columbia GSAPP explored postcolonial conditions through narrative means

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Blurring Transparent Glass

Advances in technology, along with societal concerns about sustainability, shape contemporary glazing applications

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Concerted Climate Action

Op-ed: Architecture can’t wait for regulators to lead on sustainability

Reflective building facade
Bad Building

Architecture’s aesthetics should support, rather than sabotage, a building’s function

Met With Secrecy

The design competition for Montreal’s PHI Contemporary is public and transparent. Why can’t the Met do the same?

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Full Circle

By redrawing the way we design, build, and “unbuild,” circularity could reduce forced labor in the building industry

The Politics of Memory

Calls for a permanent COVID memorial neglect our fragmented political culture and the long road to recovery that lies ahead

The vessel, a bronzed target of attack for architecture criticism in recent years
Real Talk

Op-ed: Who cares if a building is advancing a theoretical architectural idea if that idea looks bad?

a flooded freeway in new york left submerged by hurricane ida, emblematic of the climate crisis
Break the Cycle

Opinion: We can’t pedal our way out of the climate crisis

four panel deck park diagram for el paso
Cover-Up Job

Deck parks are increasingly in vogue in the Southwest’s downtown cores, but aren’t a good fit for El Paso

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You Say You Want A Revolution

Utopian politics makes a uniquely rotten pairing with architecture

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