A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Neyran Turan

Toward a new materialism.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

by Common Room

A statement on conducting conflict.

by Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab

Democratizing human health data.

by Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

by Els Verbakel

Real time urbanism.

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 […]

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 […]

An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt

How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.

by Masha Panteleyeva

A Soviet guide to funding transparency.

by Skylar Bisom-Rapp

Escaping the false binary between public and private property regimes.

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 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 McLain Clutter with Matt Kenyon

Reversing the self-fulfilling prophecies of Big Data.

by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova

Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.

by Mustafa Faruki

An architecture for the instrumentalization of grief.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Francesca Hughes

How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.

by Lori Brown

Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.

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

Re-processing Beijing’s hutong villages.

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 Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak

Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.

by Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose of Formlessfinder

An in-house, open-source wiki, an architect’s data and graphic standards, a product catalog and materials database, and a visualizer.

by Lydia Kallipoliti

A giant storage container of merchandize, data and waste.

A conversation with Benedict Clouette

Searching on unstable ground.

by Meredith Miller

From the kitchen to the field.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

by Rachel Armstrong

An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.

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.

by Alessandra Ponte with Stephan Kowal

Testing ground at 30 degrees below zero.

by Leah Meisterlin

How (not) to experiment in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.

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. […]