Metropolis’s sixth annual survey recognizes today’s leaders in architecture and design.
Administrators and curators often speak different languages. The director of the Graham Foundation is fluent in both, as she has proven by spearheading Chicago’s inaugural architectural biennial.
Social housing is threatened with demolition nearly everywhere it exists. Two architects have pioneered a strategy for saving these important public assets and the communities that live in them.
The Philadelphia-based architects have turned their own office into a laboratory to test strategies like natural ventilation and to develop technologies for sensor-driven products.
For 25 years, the Hakakians have zealously championed singular tastes, making space for distinctive objects both in their luxurious showrooms and in the wider landscape of American interiors.
Many have pegged Detroit’s comeback to a rebirth of manufacturing. A collaborative working space shows the way forward by linking entrepreneurial making with urban growth.
A sprawling retrospective of design’s favorite duo reveals how conscious they were of the power of their own image.
Karim Rashid’s iconic trashcan debuted 20 years ago. Does its message still hold up?
An emerging New York–based firm interprets the oeuvre of a controversial artist for a museum in Wuzhen, China.
Recently renovated, the Lawrence Public Library is a sunlit amalgam of reading spaces, maker spaces, and tech areas.
