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
Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil
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
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