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Virginia's Eastern Shore

Land-Use Strategies for a Purple State: Studio considers ways of protecting Virginia’s Eastern Shore from devastating sea rise

A lone farmstead is perched on the edge of a creek on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Feb 7, 2020

First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design

The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology,…

Feb 3, 2020

Fantasy, Memory, & Longing: Robin Winogrond leads designers on a search for the poetic in banal landscapes

The strange and unexpected are disappearing from our towns and cities. In Europe and America…

Jan 15, 2020

John May's Signal. Image. Architecture book cover

Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture

In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…

Dec 16, 2019

Further Reading: Eve Blau’s Baku: Oil and Urbanism

Baku—like Dubai and other major cities flush from the oil industry—has seen an upsurge of…

Dec 13, 2019

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…

Dec 11, 2019

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…

Dec 5, 2019

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…

Nov 26, 2019

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…

Nov 7, 2019

A Bodily Relationship with Territory: End. Words from the Margins mines the wildness and emptiness of New York City’s coastal edges

New York City is often regarded as the most densely designed, overdetermined real estate on…

Nov 4, 2019