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 Jonathan Tate and Travis Bost

Retaining value and reimagining idiosyncrasy where two markets meet.

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.

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.

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 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 Mustafa Faruki

An architecture for the instrumentalization of grief.

by Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

by Wendy W Fok

An op-ed on open innovation.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

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 Craig Schwitter

Actually, we have extra.

by Tanya Gershon

Passbooks, permits and the art of public life.

by Emanuel Admassu

A story of adaptable agency.

By Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak

Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.

By Nicole Lambrou

Measuring the human condition.

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 Cory Brugger

How Morphosis manages to take risks.

By Phu Hoang, MODU

Uncontrolling weather control.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

By Gabu Heindl

Close a door, draw a line.

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 David Zhai and Simon McGown

A backup city for Tokyo.

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. […]

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 […]