Notes from Metropolis
By Susan S. Szenasy
What if schools took the high road and pulled together all design understanding—for the benefit of society?
Observed
By Eric Demby
Taking a cue from P.S.1, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art lightens up with a chill-out pavilion for summer.
Object Lesson
By Paul Goldberger
For decades, Yale’s voice of architecture wasn’t an architect.
In Production
By Paul Makovsky
Liat Poysner talks about the design of her Gondwana wall sconce.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Frank Gehry’s words of advice to a roomful of Columbia shapemakers.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Hunting for a fresh crop of innovative designers.
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Most articles on the subject start with a simple, almost knee-jerk, premise: education is “in crisis.” We hear about it most when it’s most troubled. Design education is different.
By Alexandra Lange
Combining teaching and practice, history and material innovation, Toshiko Mori emerges as an architect and educator.
By Susan S. Szenasy
Tschumi and Mori on the Education of Architects.
By Susan S. Szenasy
Tschumi and Mori on Teaching Architecture.
By Jade Chang
Looking to reach a larger community, Art Center College of Design hatches an audacious plan for a second campus—and a higher profile.
By Martin C. Pedersen
Freeman Thomas, class of 1983, is one of Art Center’s many celebrated car designers. Cocreator (with fellow alumnus J Mays) of the Volkswagen Beetle and designer of the hugely influential Audi TT, Thomas now runs DaimlerChrysler’s Pacifica design studio, an innovative lab responsible for concept cars and what he calls “all the advanced architecture.”
Look upon these proud young faces, gazing confidently into the future. They’ve worked hard these past years, and now they’re ready to put their hard-won knowledge to the test. What hopes, what dreams, what proud accomplishments and dazzling careers lie in front of these eager graduates?
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