A model replica.

An installation by Roxy Paine.

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 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.

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 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 Rafi Segal

A new neighborhood for Kibbutz Hatzor.

by Magdalena Miłosz

Selections from an archive of assimilation.

by Francesca Hughes

How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

by Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Brendan Shea and Nicholas Pajerski of Reimaging

How to improvise with robots.

by Forrest Meggers

Behind the modern curtain wall, and beyond the central stack.

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.

by Neeraj Bhatia

Architecture and the open work.

by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

New York’s shelter system, to the letter of the law.

By Nicole Lambrou

Measuring the human condition.

by Lydia Kallipoliti

A giant storage container of merchandize, data and waste.

An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp

Doing history in real time.

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 Kyle Hovenkotter and Trevor Lamphier

Failure is not the end of the world.

By Quilian Riano

Conflict as catalyst.

By Jordan Carver

Inside a two-story, beige brick building.

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.

by Daniel Barber

Climatic architecture at the end of calculation.

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. […]

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 […]