Observations
Observations features individual articles focused on the intersection between the built environment and other disciplines. This section is also the home to particular series, such as featuring exhibitions across the world affected by COVID-19, and In Context (a re-contextualization of our archives by our readers).
Essay
A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain: Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit
Essay and project by Joshua G. Stein
Essay
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
Photo Essay
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Essay
A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
Article
A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House
Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever
Exhibition
Otl Aicher. Metro Bilbao. Architecture and Landscape
Exhibition curated by Gilermo Zuaznabar
Essay
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
Project
Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
Project by Rula Zuhour with photography by Samer Sharif
Essay
Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices
Text by the Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby
Essay
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Essay and photographs by David Schalliol