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Architects’ Role in the Future City
Campus and City: An Evolving Boundary
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Exploring the City You Grew Up In
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature
Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
Off-Grid Scenarios: Solutions for the Endless City
Cape Town: The City Without and Within the White Lines
Dissolving the City: Preliminary Notes on Spatial Ideologies of Information and Communication Technologies
Narrow Streets Los Angeles
Water Shore Habitat
Bilbao
Bold
What Kind of Vigilante Are You?
Tokyo
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The Space of Representations
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
Character and Cities of To-morrow
Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
A Bastion of Design
The Vizcaya Amusement Park: A Story of Broken Dreams
Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding
Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
Publics Works
Farmer’s Work
Architecture Without Idealism (Of A Sort)
Immanent Cartography
F*ck Your Tectonics
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Jason = More
More Identities
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
The Second Strategic Plan for Bilbao
Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities
EMBT Goes East
Designing Venues
In Good We Trust
Bauhaus 2009
CDF 2011 proposal
Survivor Maracaibo
A Frame of Mind
Places, Not Spaces
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Staged Energy
Power Move
Lanai Networks
In Front of the Sea
Is There a Future for the Recent Past in New Orleans?
El Peine del Viento
What is Your Favorite Public Space?
The Chicago Freight Tunnels
The Supurban Project
Through the Lens of Food
Network Traces
Prostitution, Migration, and Urban Territory
Changes are Coming
Mumbai Disconnected
More than a Museum
Speedway, Indiana
Vector Portraits
Logistical Ecologies
Filter Island
The Big Shift
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
Suburbia Gone Wild
Negotiating Legality
Tokyoites
A Sound Life
I know I’ve Seen the Master Plan
Chicago Production: Raw Quality
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Harlem Time Tracker
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We Print Because We Can
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Utopias in the Gaps
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Materiality of Deletion
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Drawings, Storytelling, and Subjectivity
Drawing Tokyo
Ghosttthead
Grace Lee
Shu Kuge
The Big Shift
New Deal Utopias
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
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A Viewpoint: A Continuous Circuit
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
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Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Christopher Marcinkoski: Speculative Urbanization and The City That Never Was
Sensing and Sensibility: Politics and Technology in the Contemporary City
A Lot You Got to Holler
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Helmut Jahn: In a Flash
Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy
Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation
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Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Nighttime as a Unique Territory
Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems
Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey
Architectures of Vigilantism
Richard Haas: An Artist About Architecture
Concentrico: Rethinking Our Built Environment Through Design
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
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1972/Accumulations
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Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle
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Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
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The Area
Chicago Tribune Tower Competition at 100
Inhabiting the Water
Periphery
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Couplings 2023
Starship Chicago II Premiere
Starship Chicago II
There is Room
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John Szot: Roman Mixtapes
A Lot With Little
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Albert C. Ledner at 100
Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
A Lot With Little Chicago
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes
Welcome to Tribuneville Reception
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Beyond Closure | Chicago
John Portman: A Life of Building
Koray Duman: Spaces of Generosity
Beyond Closure | Minneapolis
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Atlantic City
Eibar, the Factory City
Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame
SGN: On the Utility Poles of Ho Chi Minh City
Geographies of the Lockdown in Barcelona: Mapping the City from Home
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City
Goodbye to the Amber Glow
From the Mississippi Watershed
John Moutoussamy at 100
This is not the Huarte House
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Shameless Copy
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Without Michael
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Memory Card Sea Power
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
A Receding Coast
Almost Perfect
Spontaneous Uses
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
At Home with the Collective
Will We, Chicago?
After Demolition
The Super Roof Turns 50
Seeing Richard Nickel
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Seeking Zohn
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
House of the Architect
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
The “Passion Tax” is History
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Hanover and Over Again!
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Unnamed Spaces
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
The Japanese House Inside and Out
There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)
Mid-Continent Modern
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
Paul Chemetov (1928–2024)
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown
A History of Preservation in Chicago
The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College
Material Acts: Re-fusing
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture
Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that Illustrate a Rich History of Advocacy and Support
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a Gilded Age Mansion
Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
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