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.

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Exhibition

Otl Aicher. Metro Bilbao. Architecture and Landscape

Exhibition curated by Gilermo Zuaznabar

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Essay

The Changing Transportation Landscape in Chicago

Text and selection by Rachel Cole

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Exhibition

The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition

Exhibition curated and designed by Galen Pardee

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Essay

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes

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Project

Concéntrico 2020

A look at the sixth edition of Concéntrico, Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design

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Project

Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism

Project by Rula Zuhour with photography by Samer Sharif

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Essay

Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices

Text by the Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby

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Interview

Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang

Ann Lui interviews Jeanne Gang

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Exhibition

Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City

Text by Alison Fisher

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Exhibition

Practice, Product, Protocol

Exhibition on the work of Jacob Comerci, Matīss Groskaufmanis, and Eduardo Mediero

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Essay

Visualizing Disasters and an Ongoing Crisis

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik

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Exhibition

Shameless Copy

Texts by LIGA curators and Abilio Guerra

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Exhibition

Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski

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Exhibition

Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion

Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu

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Remembrance

Without Michael

Jonathan Solomon remembers Michael Sorkin

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Exhibition

El Jinete Amarillo

Text by Tamara Crespo and photography by Fidel Raso

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Essay

Food With A Face

Essay by Kathryn Clarke Albright

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Exhibition

Nivola in New York | Figure in Field

Text by Steven Hillyer and Roger Broome

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Exhibition

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl

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Exhibition

Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac

Text by Carlos Copertonee, Patxi Eguiluz, and Iker Gil

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Essay

On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya

Text and projects by Brinda Somaya