Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”
The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500 cities with…
Topic Practice
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.
“Reframing Housing Development: How Changes in Design, Construction, and Regulation Could Reduce the Cost of Housing”
What can be done to reduce the cost of housing, particularly in the United…
Reinier de Graaf, “Phantom Urbanism”
Once cities were designed to accommodate the masses; today the masses have to be…
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech
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
Amanda Levete will discuss AL_A’s latest projects, with…
Open House Lecture: Jeanne Gang, “Thinking Through Practice and Research”
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang,…
Peter Märkli, “My Profession, The Art of Building”
Peter Märkli was born in 1953. He lives and works as architect in Zurich,…
Thomas Phifer, “Recent Work”
Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm, Thomas Phifer and Partners has designed…
Rosa Sheng, “Why Equity Matters for Everyone: A new value proposition for Design”
Fueled by the persistent and striking inequity of representation in architectural practice, where women…
Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage…