Utopia Now
By Michael Sorkin
India is a magnet for planned communities, from the spiritualist
Auroville to the capitalist New Oroville.
The Smart Hands of Hella Jongerius
By Jennifer Kabat
The Dutch designer--working the seams between craft and art, past and
present--explores the industrialized one-off.
Making Buildings Talk
By Steven Heller
Using her flair for type, Paula Scher
enlivens architecture.
Iconic Workspaces
By Paul Makovsky Metropolis takes a decade-by-decade look at celebrated interiors
that have transformed the way we work.
Sound + Vision
By Christopher Hawthorne
He's a techie who thinks conceptually, a designer who makes art, a
humble collaborator with ideas of his own. But what, exactly, does
multimedia maestro Ben Rubin do?
Better Than the Boys
By Aric Chen
The most influential figure in retail architecture isn't an
architect--she's Comme des Garçons's fashion designer Rei
Kawakubo.
The Metropolis Observed
The one-man monorail; getting baked with Marcel
Wanders; L.A. kids on grass; vintage Hamptons in Tribeca; hugging trees
with Russel Wright; products with Hidden charms; observations from the mentalKLINIK;
Allsteel's favorite number; bridge over troubled ground.