At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the hidden mechanics and visible output of design practice in order to track the shifting role ...

1 BIM refers to Building Information Modeling, a digital platform for collaboration between architects, engineers, and the construction team. BIM data includes 3D information about the parts of the ...

Architects of whatever ethical stripes were not immune to these concerns. The cascade of public sentiment and the lobbying by interested parties precipitated action among legislatures for state ...

Casey Cadwallader (left) with Hunter Schafer (center) preparing for shooting of the Mugler Spring Summer 2021 Part 02 Film. That season’s show took the form of a film that was released entirely ...

Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol —the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022—was devoted to the environmental conservation of the peatlands of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago spanning what are ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

In an office park in suburban Los Angeles, set within a pristine landscape garden designed by Isamu Noguchi, there is a funny monument made of piled stones; the artist dubbed it The Spirit of the Lima ...

It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...

When the renovated German Reichstag, crowned with a stunning glass dome by Sir Norman Foster, was inaugurated with a plenary session of parliament on April 19, 1999, the Berlin Republic was at war in ...

But can “community” really rescue us from the deadening world of social dissolution, grab-it-yourself materialism and individualized, selfish, market-oriented greed? Community has always meant ...

At least, the Florida theme park seemed like a city. Thronged with people, the monorail whisking overhead, the place had not only multistory “modernist” hotels but also a “historic” Main Street that, ...

The ubiquitous lumber product known as the 2×4 does not, in fact, measure two inches thick by four inches wide. The naming of this building material is the result of compromise between forestry ...