Conflicts of Interests asks how researchers define an ethics of interest and disinterest across diverse structures of research funding

June 2018 Critiques Projects

By Eric Wycoff Rogers

The National Municipal League and the rise of architectural expertise.

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.

Dong-Ping Wong in conversation with Archie Lee Coates

Staying afloat with + POOL.

by Stephen Zacks

The use of influence for advocacy and production.

Leah Meisterlin in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus

On expelling undue influence.

by Skylar Bisom-Rapp

Escaping the false binary between public and private property regimes.

by Richard L. Hindle

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

by Common Room

A statement on conducting conflict.

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

Mapping prize funding for research in architecture.

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 Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

by Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

by Wendy W Fok

An op-ed on open innovation.

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

How to improvise with robots.

A conversation with Kersten Geers

An economy of means.

A conversation with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Within limitations.

by Kyle Hovenkotter and Trevor Lamphier

Failure is not the end of the world.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

by Lucía Jalón Oyarzun & Mateo Fernández-Muro

Taking steps to experiment upon ourselves.

By Gabu Heindl

Close a door, draw a line.

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

By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias

Field notes from the arts research boom.

An interview with Arindam Dutta

Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’

by David Zhai and Simon McGown

A backup city for Tokyo.

by Daniel Barber

Climatic architecture at the end of calculation.

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 […]