by Lori Brown

Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

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 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 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.

Dong-Ping Wong in conversation with Archie Lee Coates

Staying afloat with + POOL.

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.

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 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 Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Superflux

An invisible architecture of civilian drones.

by Rafi Segal

A new neighborhood for Kibbutz Hatzor.

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 Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova

Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.

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 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.

A memo.

Colorado Springs, CO, United States.

by Brendan Moran

A cunning demonstation.

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.

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 Patrick Joseph Craine

Adaptation through specificity.

By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab

Open mushware.

By Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak

Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.

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.’

A conversation with Benedict Clouette

Searching on unstable ground.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

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 Els Verbakel

Real time urbanism.

By Phu Hoang, MODU

Uncontrolling weather control.

by John Buonocore

Witnesses to a system long since established.

by Jordan Geiger

The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.

By Jordan Carver

Inside a two-story, beige brick building.

by Lucía Jalón Oyarzun & Mateo Fernández-Muro

Taking steps to experiment upon ourselves.

by Kate Orff

Piloting Oyster-tecture in the New York Harbor.

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.

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.

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. […]

ARPA Journal is a biannual digital publication that serves as a public forum for debate on applied research practices in architecture.

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 […]