By Nicole Lambrou

Measuring the human condition.

by Sara Stevens

Design and capital in the work of Gerald Hines.

Leah Meisterlin in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus

On expelling undue influence.

By Eric Wycoff Rogers

The National Municipal League and the rise of architectural expertise.

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.

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 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 Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab

Democratizing human health data.

by Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

by Wendy W Fok

An op-ed on open innovation.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Francesca Hughes

How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.

by Annabel Wharton

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

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

by Denise Scott Brown

Architecture’s offering to academe.

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

How to improvise with robots.

by Forrest Meggers

Behind the modern curtain wall, and beyond the central stack.

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 Neyran Turan

Toward a new materialism.

by Neeraj Bhatia

Architecture and the open work.

by Tanya Gershon

Passbooks, permits and the art of public life.

by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

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

By Leigha Dennis

A photo essay on the other kind of storage.

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.

An interview with David Joselit

Architecture after the ‘Era of Art.’

by Lydia Kallipoliti

A giant storage container of merchandize, data and waste.

A conversation with Benedict Clouette

Searching on unstable ground.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

An interview with Cory Brugger

How Morphosis manages to take risks.

By Phu Hoang, MODU

Uncontrolling weather control.

by Jordan Geiger

The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.

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

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 Daniel Barber

Climatic architecture at the end of calculation.

by Leah Meisterlin

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

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 […]

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 […]