Ideas

Stantec: Airports. Edited By Trevor Boddy; texts by Trevor Boddy and Stanis Smith. Figure 1 Publishing, 2017 For the past several years, Stantec has been an…

Berlin 2013/1983 — By Daniel Young and Christian Giroux, with essays by Anh-Linh Ngo, Kenneth Hayes, Anne Huffschmid and Sandra Bartoli. Arch + Verlag, 2018…

The photographer’s Night images prompt a reconsideration of midcentury utopianism.

A small park project demonstrates the power of architects and engineers working together.

The more we talk about gender inequity in architecture, the more disturbing the conversation. As Despina Stratigakos, author of the book Where Are the Women…

More than we care to admit, architecture is partly a trick of the light. Much depends on the timing and context of your interaction with it and the medium…

There is always a fascination in discovering new connections between architects of different generations and from different places. A link has emerged between…

Over the last several years, it has become apparent to conscientious architects, planners, and ordinary citizens that the much-touted Vancouverism—a phenomenon…

An ambitious new research project maps out the past and present of multi-unit living.

‘Sangath, it’s an architect’s office isn’t it?’ asks the auto-rickshaw driver as we make our way through Ahmedabad’s late afternoon traffic. By this point, I’m…

For the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi, architecture is “never about resolving a problem; it is about discovery in the joy of making.”…

For the Communist Party of China, housing has always been a tool to control the population. State-run businesses initially delivered units under the aegis of…