Issues

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Out of Water

Graphic Novel by Jimenez Lai
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Water Shore Habitat

Project by David Garcia Studio awarded First Prize in the International Unesco Delta City of the Future competition
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Tactics of Control: Race + Water in the Mississippi Delta

Essay by Atelier Mey
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Alaska vs Mario vs John Waters vs Boundary

A conversation between Alaska and Mario Vaquerizo
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Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium

Text by Iker Gil
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In Front of the Sea

Architect Eduard Bru explores some of the cities that have addressed the powerful edge of the waterfront
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A Sound Life

Iker Gil interviews movie sound designer Oriol Tarragó
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Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding

Text by Iker Gil
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso
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Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature

Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori
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EMBT Goes East

Mateu Baylina and Xavi Ayala interview Benedetta Tagliabue

Survivor Maracaibo

Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
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Lanai Networks

Landscape architect Marcel Wilson explains the history, challenges and opportunities that Lanai Island in Hawaii is facing
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Filter Island

Project by UrbanLab
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Montreal: Port/City

Project by Tomek Bartczak
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
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The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
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Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?

Iker Gil interviews astronaut Claude Nicollier
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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit
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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas

Observations

Mas observations 2022 from the mississippi watershed 01

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
Mas observations 2022 on the origins of high water 01

On the Origins of High Water

Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger interview Virginia Hanusik
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Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture

Essay by Derek Hoeferlin
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
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Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
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A Receding Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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La Ricarda: A Work in Progress

Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig
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Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
Mas observations 2023 the englewood nature trail 01

The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond

Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design
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Art at the James R. Thompson Center

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 beyond the landmarks 01

Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana

Text and photographs by David Schalliol
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Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes
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House of the Architect

Text by Iker Gil
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Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
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Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

Text by Michelangelo Sabatino with photographs by Will Quam
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1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?

Text by Marin R. Sullivan