An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt

How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.

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.

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 Common Room

A statement on conducting conflict.

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 Curt Gambetta

Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.

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 Alan Smart

Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.

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 Denise Scott Brown

Architecture’s offering to academe.

An installation by Roxy Paine.

A conversation with Kersten Geers

An economy of means.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

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 Emanuel Admassu

A story of adaptable agency.

by Wolfgang Kessling and Christian Oberdorf, Transsolar

Don’t let performance kill the poetry.

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.

by Els Verbakel

Real time urbanism.

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 Gabu Heindl

Close a door, draw a line.

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 Daniel Barber

Climatic architecture at the end of calculation.

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 […]

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 […]