Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
If recent theory has highlighted architecture’s turn to evident resemblance and signification, we argue this tendency has also produced its other: The landscape of contemporary practice is filled with work whose motivating interests are anterior to meaning and averse to thematization; they are, in a…
Amanda Levete will discuss AL_A’s latest projects, with…
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang,…
Peter Märkli was born in 1953. He lives and works as architect…
Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm, Thomas Phifer and Partners has designed…
Fueled by the persistent and striking inequity of representation in architectural practice,…
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei…
William Rawn and Sam Lasky, principals at William Rawn and Associates, presented on key projects…
Doug Gensler, a managing director at Gensler Boston, discussed the history of Gensler from its…
Mark Pasnik (MDes ’95) presented on the first decade of his practice, over,under, relating the…