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.
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
Essay by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with photographs by David Schalliol
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
A look at the sixth edition of Concéntrico, Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design
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
