by Wendy W Fok

An op-ed on open innovation.

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.

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 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.

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 Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Superflux

An invisible architecture of civilian drones.

by Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab

Democratizing human health data.

by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova

Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Annabel Wharton

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

Downey, CA, United States.

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

How to improvise with robots.

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 Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

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 Leigha Dennis

A photo essay on the other kind of storage.

By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab

Open mushware.

By Nicole Lambrou

Measuring the human condition.

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.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

by Jordan Geiger

The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.

by Rachel Armstrong

An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.

by Lucía Jalón Oyarzun & Mateo Fernández-Muro

Taking steps to experiment upon ourselves.

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.

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. […]

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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 […]