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Advice for Young Designers Entering the Profession

John Ronan
August 12, 2020
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A seasoned architect shares lessons from his career with emerging designers.
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Remembering Enric Miralles: Two New Books

Fabian Llonch
July 24, 2020
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Architect and educator Fabian Llonch reflects on his late mentor Enric Miralles, the Spanish architect and cofounder of EMBT Architects, who died 20 years ago in July. Two new books survey his work.
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Pandemic Gives New Meaning to the Phrase 'Virtual Reality'

Andrew Blum
July 7, 2020
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The digital world of video games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons has opened up a way of seeing architecture, writes author Andrew Blum.
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Opinion: In Education and Practice, Architecture Fails to Hear Black Voices

Practitioner and educator Cory Henry writes about the profession’s “willful ignorance” of the mechanisms of inequity.
Cory Henry
June 5, 2020
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“Architecture’s failure to address the mechanisms of inequity within its own system is willful ignorance at best,” writes practitioner and educator Cory Henry.
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Opinion: Blackout — Amplifying the Voices of Blackness Within Architecture

Architect and educator Sekou Cooke considers the role of the profession in confronting historically entrenched racism and violence in the U.S.
Sekou Cooke
June 4, 2020
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"Maybe there is a parallel to be drawn between the lack of Black perspectives within the architectural 'we' and the inability of the architectural profession to find a suitable response to the current state of social justice," writes architect and educator Sekou Cooke.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Terminal 2, Mumbai (2014).

Women Take Charge at SOM

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Suzanne Stephens
May 1, 2020
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The firm makes an historic move with three women at the top.
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Rising Seas Threaten Historic Houses

Cornelia Dean
April 7, 2020
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Coastal communities try inventive strategies to save significant structures.
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Neri Oxman's 'Material Ecology' Exhibition at MoMA Illuminates and Inspires

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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
April 6, 2020
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The online exhibition, which opened May 14, takes the transdisciplinary nature of architecture to the next level. Watch our video interview with Oxman below.
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The Architect's Photographer: Alan Karchmer

March 9, 2020
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An exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. examines the work of the architectural photographer.
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A 25-foot-long photomontage of the Olivetti mural in the Cooper Union show, with a tabletop sculpture in the center foreground.

Cooper Union Exhibition Highlights the Work of Costantino Nivola

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Cathleen McGuigan
February 24, 2020
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A show on view through March 15 examines the work of an artist who worked closely with many prominent modernist architects.
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