By Aaron Betsky
An early Metropolis editor looks back on two decades of New York architecture.
By Sam Jacob
The form-follows-function principle that guided industrial design for the past 70 years is fast becoming obsolete.
By Blair Kamin
The ideological catfights over housing threaten to marginalize all of architecture.
By Joel Kotkin
The predominant form of urbanism in the twenty-first century will reside outside the city.
By Paul Goldberger
For years New Yorkers were much more likely to work in glass towers than live in them. No more.
By Christopher Hawthorne
Should one architect—even the world’s most famous architect—be responsible for all of the buildings in two massive developments?
By Karrie Jacobs
What is a typeface? Today it’s whatever you want it to be.
By Susan S. Szenasy
In the past 25 years we’ve identified some pieces of the sustainability puzzle. It’s time to find the rest and make the picture clear.
By Bruce Sterling
Our author ruminates on a year spent as a visionary in residence.
By Akiko Busch
A pillow embedded with the sounds of the sea proves irresistible—and oddly unsettling.
By William J. Mitchell
Emerging technologies are poised to reshape our urban environments.
By Natalia Ilyin
Our author—who’s had her issues with monumental modernism—lets down her guard.
By Reed Kroloff
The author gains a new appreciation for exile and neglect in post-Katrina New Orleans.
In Review
By Alexander Gorlin
Studying with Eisenman, Hejduk, Scully, Stern, and Stirling was often an exercise in high drama.
Dîa-logue(s)
By Oren Safdie
The former theorist turned master builder and fashion icon talks about his new Peace Center in Jerusalem, the future of product design, and the perils of architecture in the competition age.
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For our 25th anniversary issue we decided to reflect on some of the defining moments in the design world since 1981, when Metropolis was founded.
By Martin Pedersen
Maya Lin’s powerfully simple design was a balm for deep social wounds and the catalyst for commemorating every subsequent tragedy.
By Philip Nobel
His prodigious talent, outsize personality, and unparalleled ability to generate press revolutionized design.
By Laurie Manfra
The Michael Graves legacy remains as contentious and confounding as ever.
By Paul Makovsky
A New York restauranteur creates a cultural hub by combining politics with design, activism with good food.
By Peter Hall
Years after its demise the legendary magazine continues to exert a cultural influence.
By Stephen Zacks
This simple utensil embodied the promise of the ADA—a promise that is still largely unrealized but more important than ever.
By Laurie Manfra
A former IBM engineer introduces CATIA software into the design process and pushes architecture into a new era.
By Andrew Blum
The idea of sustainable development helped spark a second wave of environmental awareness.
By Peter Hall
It revolutionized the task chair and in the process became an enduring cultural symbol.
By Nancy Nowacek
A big book that revived the monograph and redefined the role of graphic design.
By Lyle Rexer
It catapulted architecture into the mainstream and had museums scrambling to copy the “formula.”
By Paola Antonelli
This cheerful computer gave apt form to Apple’s personable interface—and forever changed our standards for technology.
By Philip Nobel
The events of 9/11 brought architecture center stage—an unprecedented opportunity—but was it “good for the profession”?
By Stephen Zacks
As the real estate market boomed, developers discovered the value of name-brand architecture.
By Nick Fortugno and Katie Salen
As games and game design become increasingly influential in other design disciplines, we called on area/code and the team behind the B.U.G. to create a game addressing architecture, culture, and design.
By Luke Bulman
Like so many rapidly changing neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue is not the same as it was 25 years ago, nor will it be the same next year. This January Thumb recorded the rhythms of its evolving streetlife.
By Timorous Beasties
Despite the Internet, we haven’t stopped reading magazines and saving bits of them for our scrapbooks. Here we hoped to extend that idea, and offer a wallpaper repeat to cut, copy, and paste.
By Steve Powers
Known for art that merges the vernacular of hand-painted signs with personal and sometimes visionary narrative, Steve Powers suggests a sign for the metropolis of today.
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