High Tech Timber
SCI-Arc's planned robot annex promises solutions to real problems—in the building industry and beyond it.
Author: Guy Horton
Let There Be Shade: A PoMo Church Looks to Gothic Architecture and Algorithms to Solve its Solar Problem
A renovation of the Phillip Johnson and John Burgee–designed Crystal Cathedral adds algorithmically-modeled shades to protect the congregation from the sun.
Sensors, Privacy, Data, and the High-Tech Workplace
A Think Tank panel discussion hosted at AECOM’s office in Los Angeles mulled over the consequences of building integrated data capture and analytics.
Scaling Up Performance: Integrating Resilient Thinking Across Campuses, Districts, and Cities
At a Think Tank panel discussion held at SmithGroup’s L.A. office, experts describes the challenges and rewards of integrating resiliency into projects.
Harnessing Company Culture and Wellness for Workplace Design
A Think Tank talk, hosted at HOK’s Los Angeles office, challenged the assumptions behind common workplace paradigms, like plunking a café or gym in an office.
Inside the Mind of Sou Fujimoto
Metropolis interviews the renowned Japanese architect, whose retrospective exhibition Futures of the Future is currently on view at Japan House Los Angeles.
Ceilings Plus Joins Forces with SCI-Arc Grads to Push the Limits on Building Products
The Los Angeles-based fabricator Ceilings Plus and SCI-Arc graduates push the limits on building products.
South America's First Bahá’i Temple is a Triumph of Material Innovation
The poetic form of the Bahá’i Temple of South America is a triumph of engineering and material innovation.
A Pioneer of Digital Fabrication Heralds the Machine-Made Revolution in Architecture
After two decades of experience in robotics-based fabrication, Andreas Froech, founder of Machineous Consultants, wants more control over his work and is reclaiming his role in the design process.
L.A. Gallery Bridges Innovative Design on Both Sides of Pacific
Based out of a Los Angeles landmark, Gallery ALL is a vital node in the city's design network.
Please Do Not Enter Is L.A.'s Best Design "Secret"
Please Do Not Enter isn’t a secret, but it isn’t exactly well-known either. To founders Nicolas Libert and Emmanuel Renoird, both originally from Paris, this means they are doing something right.
Tokyo's Endangered Modernist Buildings Find an Unlikely Advocate
The fashion designer Tomas Maier has launched a campaign to save the best of the Japanese capital's twentieth-century architecture.
Yuri Suzuki: Sound Artist, Designer, and Sometimes DJ
The London-based designer mixes computer programming and grade-school charm in his whimsical sound installations.
Using Crystals and Plantings, Cao Perrot Studio Creates "Dreamscapes"
With bases in Los Angeles and Brittany, France, the landscape designers craft exquisite outdoor spaces around the world.
Wrk-shp Uses Concrete to Make Clothing and Planters Alike
Designers Airi Isoda and Ryan Upton see architecture everywhere—in everyday objects, interior spaces, and ready-to-wear apparel.
On China's Problem with "Weird" Architecture
How seriously should architects take Xi Jinping’s remarks on unusual buildings?
3-D Printing Saves a Frank Lloyd Wright Treasure
In central Florida, architects have adopted 3-D printing to restore an obscure Wright-designed gem.
This Designer Wants to Create a Real River for Los Angeles
The landscape architect has spent nearly two decades helping transform a mammoth drainage canal into a true urban amenity.
Of Fundamentals and Fundamentalists: Critics Talk Koolhaas's Biennale
What everyone is saying about Rem's Venice curatorial effort.
Learning From Mao: USC Students Redesign a Fashion Classic
Students from the USC School of Architecture were given a strange task: create a Mao jacket out of unconventional materials.
