Observed
| • |  | The Road to Innovation |
| • | | Shape-Shifter |
| • | | The Ultimate Client |
| • | | Bedding Astronauts |
| • | | History's First Draft |
| • | | Symbolic Architecture |
In Production
By Paul Makovsky
Hector Serrano talks about the design of his Waterproof lamp for Metalarte.
America
By Karrie Jacobs
Dorothy’s Kansas was black-and-white. Bush’s is red all over. But Diane Botwin Alpert’s is much more complex.
Portfolio
By Kristi Cameron
The Design Academy Eindhoven’s annual graduation show in October is so popular that it spawned Eindhoven Design Week.
Far Corner
By Philip Nobel
Why buildings smothered in signs are actually good for the profession.
Materials
By Paul Makovsky
A collaboration between UN Studio and two manufacturers results in a dazzling color changing glass facade.
Productsphere
By Paul Makovsky
Crisscrossing the globe in search of innovative designers.
By Kristi Cameron
Young Finns are taking design matters into their own hands.
In Review
| Man-Made Wonderland | | |
By Alexandra Lange
Why is Dutch design so good? Aaron Betsky argues that it's deeply woven into their history and natural psyche.
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and projects covered in this issue of Metropolis.
| | By Paul Makovsky
In establishing a new foundation, the Eames family learns that promoting the legacy of Charles and Ray extends beyond preservation of the iconic house.
| At Home with Lucia | | |
By Paul Makovsky
Charles Eames's daughter talks about preserving the legacy, saving the house, the new foundation, and making it all relevant to future generations.
| Flashback | | |
History has turned the house into a kind of shrine, but its underlying design lessons continue to instruct and inspire.
| Scrapbook | | |
The Eames House was not just a home and working studio--a laboratory of ideas--but also Charles and Ray's stageset for the great game of life, where the personal and professional merged.
By Martin C. Pedersen
Metropolis predicts the future by exporing the places, spaces, and realms we inhabit.
By Karen E. Steen
Umbilical Design creates habitable settings for extraterrestrial travel.
| Global: WH2OSE? | | |
By Laurie Manfra
Faced with water shortages in coming decades, the world will have to find better ways to mange this essential resource.
| National: The Greening of Health and Science | | |
By Karen E. Steen
Hospitals and labs should be poster children for sustainable design, but they're not. That's about to change.
| City: Rereaching for the Stars | | |
By Peter Hall
An elite team of architects and engineers works on a new category of skyscraper: the ultratall building.
| Neighborhood: The Wisdom of Cities | | |
By Julien Devereux
Retirees are increasingly making their homes in cities, where they are not socially or physically isolated.
| Neighborhood: Youthful Collaboration | | |
By Kristi Cameron
Leroy Street Studio works with possible future architects at a neighboring school, and offers a model for the future of architectural practice.
| Building: Digital Logic | | |
By Stephen Zacks
By mathematically modeling natural processes, Terraswarm is creating digital architecture that makes intuitive sense.
| Interior: Personal Space | | |
By Julie Taraska
A speculative project--aimed at fostering one-on-one work--looks to solve the problems long associated with the open-plan office.
| Product: Tech Styles | | |
By Kristi Cameron
Looolo Textiles proves that technology can be the solution to environmental problems, not just a cause of them.
| Body: The Fable Hospital | | |
By Martin C. Pedersen
The hospital of the future already exists in facilities across the country. Forward-thinking designers can start building it immediately.
| Nano: The Next Big Thing | | |
By Laurie Manfra
Manufacturing everything from solar film to paint on a molecular level promises to be a huge industry in the coming decade.
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