Observations
This platform features articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and photo essays about the built environment and the people and conditions that shape it. Since 2022, Observations has also included a monthly column by architectural historian Elizabeth Blasius.
Photo Essay
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
Texts by Miguel Losada and Pedro G. Losada, with photography by Pedro G. Losada
Monthly Column
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Essay
Introduction by Jeffery S. Poss with text and photographs by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
Essay
The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse
Text by Umi the Cat and project by Imu Chan Architecture
Monthly Column
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP
Monthly Column
Monthly Column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Essay
Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design