Author: Peter Hall

The designer Elliott Earls and architecture students at Cranbrook learn some valuable lessons on the job.

Recently developed software promises to provide industrial designers with a powerful new tool for materials evaluation.

Grimshaw Industrial Design creates a seamless interface between the building and its users.

Over a three-year collaboration, Fuseproject and Herman Miller developed the idea into SAYL, a lightweight chair whose main feature is a “3-D intelligent” back.

Education experts tell us that kids today learn in fundamentally different ways. Why haven’t our classrooms changed to reflect this shift? A new student chair and learning lab from Steelcase look to bridge the gap.

Led by a hard-charging CEO and his right-hand man, Grohe uses design to remake both the bathroom and its own business.

­Critics of the Museum of Arts and Design missed the real point of the building.

Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.

Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.

With more people working from home, Herman Miller commissions a new line of domestic office furniture to accompany its famous Eames and Nelson pieces. But are icons born or made?

A new air purifier looks to provide fresh air in offices on a desk-by-desk basis.

In order to build himself a glass house, an Austin architect had to navigate the feverish politics of the city’s real estate market.

The world’s first digital database of Asian head and face shapes could help change the way all industrial designers think about ergonomics and fit.

Western Michigan’s big-three furniture makers have plans for your office chair once you’re finally done sitting in it.

Architect Christopher Janney’s playful public art acts as an aural and light-filled salve to the alienating effects of the built environment.

As you enter the IAC Building, you might notice how the heads of people sitting in reception are dwarfed by a giant globe projected on a 20-foot-wide screen behind them, as if in some Barry Diller–esque restaging of the war…