An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt

How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.

by Sara Stevens

Design and capital in the work of Gerald Hines.

by Skylar Bisom-Rapp

Escaping the false binary between public and private property regimes.

By Frédéric Schnee

Nicolas Schöffer’s Maison Spatiodynamique à Cloisons Invisibles.

Dong-Ping Wong in conversation with Archie Lee Coates

Staying afloat with + POOL.

Leah Meisterlin in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus

On expelling undue influence.

by Joseph Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez of AFJD

Mycelium architecture and ecologies of practice.

by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova

Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.

by Wendy W Fok

An op-ed on open innovation.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Annabel Wharton

Models as agents in the world, from economics to the Barbie doll.

by Denise Scott Brown

Architecture’s offering to academe.

Tuscon, AZ, United States.

by Brendan Moran

A cunning demonstation.

by Travis Jared Marmarellis Bunt and Mathew Staudt, with Tat Lam and Timmie King Hong Tsang

Re-processing Beijing’s hutong villages.

A conversation with Kersten Geers

An economy of means.

A conversation with Craig Schwitter

Actually, we have extra.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt

The futility of a home that serves nobody and needs no one.

A symposium with speakers Orit Halpern, Andrés Jaque, Hod Lipson and Michael Sorkin. Organized by Esteban de Backer, David Isaac Hecht, Alejandro Stein and Che-Wei Yeh. Moderated by Janette Kim, Diana Martinez, Leah Meisterlin and Susanne Schindler.

How does architectural research work?

by Esteban de Backer

The architecture of Pragmatism.

by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

New York’s shelter system, to the letter of the law.

by Emanuel Admassu

A story of adaptable agency.

by Patrick Joseph Craine

Adaptation through specificity.

By Leigha Dennis

A photo essay on the other kind of storage.

By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab

Open mushware.

By Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak

Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.

by Lydia Kallipoliti

A giant storage container of merchandize, data and waste.

A conversation with Benedict Clouette

Searching on unstable ground.

An interview with Cory Brugger

How Morphosis manages to take risks.

by Els Verbakel

Real time urbanism.

By Phu Hoang, MODU

Uncontrolling weather control.

by Keith Kaseman and Raul Corrêa Smith, with Studio Sangue Bom VI

Start with a handshake.

by Kyle Hovenkotter and Trevor Lamphier

Failure is not the end of the world.

by John Buonocore

Witnesses to a system long since established.

By Jordan Carver

Inside a two-story, beige brick building.

by Rachel Armstrong

An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.

by Kate Orff

Piloting Oyster-tecture in the New York Harbor.

Andrés Jaque in conversation with Patrick Joseph Craine and Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez.

by Andrés Jaque

On making Peter Eisenman transparent.

by Jennifer W. Leung

Research as a place apart.

An interview with Arindam Dutta

Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’

by David Zhai and Simon McGown

A backup city for Tokyo.

by Gökçe Günel

When monitoring and modification collide.

EMILY ABRUZZO Contributor. Emily Abruzzo, AIA, LEED AP is partner in ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS, recipients of the 2010 Architectural League Prize, AIA New Practices New York 2012, and selected for the New York City Department of Design + Construction Excellence Program. She is a Fellow of The Forum and Institute for Urban Design, and a […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 05 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST “Conflicts of interest” are said to compromise the impartiality of research, but what would it mean to be disinterested? Ethical codes warn us that researchers’ objectivity can be corrupted by a clashing set of interests—those of funding agencies, clients and publics, as well as researchers’ self-interest in […]

MISSION Research is everywhere. Architects incite action, design materials and archive cities. They capitalize upon the excess energy of practice to launch unsolicited experiments into the world, or sidestep clients by joining forces with government think tanks. Discussions from classrooms have found currency at town halls, and findings from construction sites have migrated into basement […]