By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab

Open mushware.

By Frédéric Schnee

Nicolas Schöffer’s Maison Spatiodynamique à Cloisons Invisibles.

by Richard L. Hindle

A history of innovation in physical infrastructure and large-scale complex systems.

By Eric Wycoff Rogers

The National Municipal League and the rise of architectural expertise.

by Joseph Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez of AFJD

Mycelium architecture and ecologies of practice.

Curated by Jennifer W. Leung. Featuring Curt Gambetta, Mustafa Faruki, Lori Brown, Filip Tejchman, Michelle Fornabai, Wendy W. Fok, Meejin Yoon, McLain Clutter, Alan Smart, Magdalena Milosz, and Rafi Segal.

Tag-team commentary.

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

Design and delivery of the MIT Collier Memorial.

by Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Superflux

An invisible architecture of civilian drones.

by Mustafa Faruki

An architecture for the instrumentalization of grief.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Francesca Hughes

How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

by Brendan Moran

A cunning demonstation.

by Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Brendan Shea and Nicholas Pajerski of Reimaging

How to improvise with robots.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Chris Perry

Not for ‘us’ alone.

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?

A conversation with Mahadev Raman

Triple bottom line.

by Wolfgang Kessling and Christian Oberdorf, Transsolar

Don’t let performance kill the poetry.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

By Elliott P. Montgomery

Social measurement of the unlikely.

By Jordan Carver

Inside a two-story, beige brick building.

by Rachel Armstrong

An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.

by Lucía Jalón Oyarzun & Mateo Fernández-Muro

Taking steps to experiment upon ourselves.

by Andrés Jaque

On making Peter Eisenman transparent.

By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias

Field notes from the arts research boom.

by Jennifer W. Leung

Research as a place apart.

An interview with Arindam Dutta

Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’

by Alessandra Ponte with Stephan Kowal

Testing ground at 30 degrees below zero.

by Daniel Barber

Climatic architecture at the end of calculation.

by Gökçe Günel

When monitoring and modification collide.

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. […]

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 […]