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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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Essay

Hurricane Harvey, the Golden Triangle, and the Inequality of Relief

Essay by Elizabeth Blasius

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Remembrance

Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)

Architects remember Stanley Tigerman

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Interview

Memory Card Sea Power

Iker Gil interviews David Southwood

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Essay

Pittsburgh as a Project: Reimagining the Modern

Essay by Rami el Samahy, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo

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Essay

Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik

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Interview

Atlantic City

Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose

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Interview

En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)

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Essay

Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha

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Essay

Connections: 48 Years

Presentation by Barbara Kasten

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Essay

A Receding Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik

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Interview

Almost Perfect

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo and Yuka Martin Mendo

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Essay

Rebel Garages

Essay and policy proposals by Future Firm

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Visual Explorations of Our Daily Environment

Visualizations by Scott Reinhard

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Essay

In Context: Katya Tylevich

Katya Tylevich recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Ross Wolfe

Ross Wolfe recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Chris Berthelsen

Chris Berthelsen recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Suzanne Strum

Suzanne Strum recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Tomas Skovgaard

Tomas Skovgaard recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Martine Syms

Martine Syms recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Diego Arraigada

Diego Arraigada recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Michael Kubo

Michael Kubo recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Brendan Crain

Brendan Crain recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Essay

In Context: Javier Arbona

Javier Arbona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives