by Sara Stevens

Design and capital in the work of Gerald Hines.

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 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 J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler, Höweler + Yoon Architecture

Design and delivery of the MIT Collier Memorial.

by Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

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 Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Francesca Hughes

How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

by Denise Scott Brown

Architecture’s offering to academe.

Arlington, VA, United States.

Sichuan Province, China.

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.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Chris Perry

Not for ‘us’ alone.

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.

A conversation with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Within limitations.

by Esteban de Backer

The architecture of Pragmatism.

by Neeraj Bhatia

Architecture and the open work.

by Patrick Joseph Craine

Adaptation through specificity.

By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab

Open mushware.

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.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

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By Elliott P. Montgomery

Social measurement of the unlikely.

An interview with Cory Brugger

How Morphosis manages to take risks.

by Meredith Miller

From the kitchen to the field.

By Phu Hoang, MODU

Uncontrolling weather control.

by Jordan Geiger

The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.

By Jordan Carver

Inside a two-story, beige brick building.

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.

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 Avigail Sachs

An op-ed on the wickedness of application.

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. […]

Test Subjects focuses on the contended nature of application in architectural research.

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 […]