An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt

How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.

by Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

Tuscon, AZ, United States.

A conversation with Craig Schwitter

Actually, we have extra.

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 Esteban de Backer

The architecture of Pragmatism.

An interview with Cory Brugger

How Morphosis manages to take risks.

An interview with Arindam Dutta

Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’

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 […]