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Work in Progress: Nan Yang’s Modern Food Supply System

Nan Yang (MLA I ’20) describes her final project for the option…

Jan 27, 2020

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Work in Progress: William Smith’s Model of a Model of a Model

William Smith (MArch II ’20) describes his final project for the option…

Jan 16, 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

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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

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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…

Dec 9, 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 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