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Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?

At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…

Jul 12, 2022

Features

Rendering of a building wrapped around a tree in a forest.

The Future of Tourism: Can the pandemic change how we visit popular sites for the better? 

Oonagh Davis’s (MArch II ’23) proposal for the option studio “Between Wilderness and Civilization,”…

Dec 14, 2021

Interviews

Practice in a Time of Economic Uncertainty: Advice for Emerging Architects

For many architects—particularly those at the start of their careers—the current moment feels fraught with…

Sep 10, 2021

Features

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GSD experts on a major barrier to climate crisis mitigation: “The majority of Americans have little experience with the land and its rhythms”

If Earth’s biosphere is in crisis, it is a peculiar sort of crisis. To human…

Jul 14, 2021

News

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Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account

Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…

Feb 10, 2021

Features

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Hidden Territories: Uncovering the racist legacy of the American landscape

The term “landscape” historically referred to pictures of the world—vistas or views—and so it is…

Nov 20, 2020

Features

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The pandemic has caused an unprecedented reckoning with digital culture. Architecture may never be the same again (and that’s okay)

Images from “The Architecture of Light” by Serge Najjar Reflections on creating architectural culture online…

Apr 22, 2020

Profiles

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…

Nov 22, 2019

Features

If it’s for us, but not with us, it’s against us: Hicham Khalidi on the challenges of curating in public spaces

Sprawling across entire cities, the biennial has become a prominent means for architects, designers, and…

Sep 24, 2019

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