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.
Monthly Column
Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Exhibition
Exhibition about Emili Donato co-curated by Jordi Roig and Miguel Jiménez
Monthly Column
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre
Interview
Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a Gilded Age Mansion
Iker Gil interviews Giovanni Aloi
Interview
Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City
Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose
Monthly Column
Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Project
A look at five finalist projects selected for the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Interview
Interview with Laurens Bekemans, Ben Loescher, Meredith Miller, and Virginia San Fratello by the Material Acts team (Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu)
Monthly Column
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
David Schalliol interviews Arturo Soto
