Learning from Susan Fainstein: Do planners have a responsibility to fight for social equity?
Susan Fainstein’s ideas for the “just city” crystallized in the 1960s and ’70s, during a…
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Historian Lizabeth Cohen reflects on Alex Krieger’s new book, City on a Hill
A beautifully illustrated book that comes out of more than three decades of teaching and…
Socks Studio: Part visual atlas, part psychological voyage into the unknown
What do textured Aurelian walls, a Franciscan friar’s dabblings in typography, and a telecommunicated exhibition…
The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism
Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…
Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration
To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…
Zoom! The Archigram Collection Arrives at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Imagine yourself a couple of months out of architecture school recalling the moments and projects…
Rhythm of the Torrent: Susie Ibarra’s sonic maps capture the texture, story, and architecture of a place in sound
Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra is standing in the…
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
The Collective Amnesia of Sugar Land: Unearthing a link between mass incarceration and slavery
In early 2018, the remains of 95 people were found in Sugar Land, Texas, as…
Domestic Orbits: Frida Escobedo on architecture’s tendency to conceal spaces of domestic labor
Selective concealment is a typical, though often unacknowledged, function of architecture. Architectural detailing, for example,…
Talking Practice: Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Lyndon Neri and…
Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…