Instruments of Service questions the status of the instrument and of service. What does it mean to serve? What is left to instrumentalize, to monetize and to influence?

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by J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler, Höweler + Yoon Architecture

Design and delivery of the MIT Collier Memorial.

by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova

Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.

by Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Annabel Wharton

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

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 […]

by Sara Stevens

Design and capital in the work of Gerald Hines.

by Vittorio Lovato with Peggy Deamer, Quilian Riano, and Manuel Shvartzberg on behalf of The Architecture Lobby

Mapping prize funding for research in architecture.

by Joseph Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez of AFJD

Mycelium architecture and ecologies of practice.

by Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

by Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab

Democratizing human health data.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Rachel Armstrong

An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.

by Jennifer W. Leung

Research as a place apart.

A Aarts, Emile., Réné Collier, Evert van Loenen, and Boris de Ruyter, eds. Ambient Intelligence. Proceedings from the First European Symposium, EUSAI 2003, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, November 3–4, 2003 (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2003). Cited in Schnee. Aarts, Emile., Rick Harwig, and Martin Schuurmans, “Ambient intelligence.” The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology into Everyday Life, ed. Peter J. […]