Excerpt from Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City by Seng Kuan
Below is an except from Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and…
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.
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Design collaborative colab-19 is changing how we think about post-pandemic architecture
Late last year, a scaffolding structure rose to abut the facade of the popular…
Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”
Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…
Talking Practice: Practice in an Uncertain World
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La moderates a special roundtable, Practice in…
Excerpt: The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell
Designed by ELLA. Three time zones and three thousand miles…
Silvia Benedito’s new book Atmosphere Anatomies explores weather, climate, and atmosphere as mediums of design
Much of modern civilization has been shaped by a fundamental need for shelter, and much…
The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places
Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…
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,…
In Cotton Kingdom, Now, Sara Zewde retraces Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
“The mountain ranges, the valleys, and the great waters of America, all trend north and…