Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
In her new book, Despina Stratigakos tells the story of how Nazi architects and planners began to build a Nordic empire in Norway during World War II.
Cities
From a Complicated Present, Urban Reuse Parks Look to the Future
Metropolis catches up with the High Line Network, a consortium of North American reuse projects that has been sharing notes and best practices through the pandemic.
Richard Sennett and Pablo Sendra on Mutual Aid and Density in Times of Urban Crisis
Metropolis spoke with the pair about their new book, which expounds on the bottom-up, accordion-like features that make cities resilient.
Can a City Be Feminist?
Upon the release today of her new book Feminist City, Leslie Kern catches up with Metropolis on how cities can be more equitable for all genders.
On this Fourth of July, Remember that Public Space is Democracy's Great Stage
Making public space unwelcome is a perversion of its purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.
The Pandemic and Protests Have Highlighted Just How Unequal Our Cities Are
With a new urban crisis surfacing, designers from around the world propose radical changes to transportation, cooperative living, and public space.
With the Reissue of Reyner Banham's Classic, Tracing the Megastructural Moment
The recent reissue of Banham's Megastructure helps mine the typology's precedents and points toward the ambitious movement's contemporary heirs.
In Mexico City, Designers Join Forces to Help the Underprivileged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The capital's robust design community is responding to the health crisis with creative action.
In Small Town Appalachia, Researchers Find an "Evolution Towards Resilience"
Columbia University students found consensus around the post-carbon economy and riverfront rehabilitation among Appalachian locals.
This Bridge in Providence Was Designed as Public Space
A part of Rhode Island's extensive Iway project, the infrastructure supports a pedestrian pathway, gardens, and occupiable spaces.
At Rem Koolhaas’s Countryside, the Medium Doesn’t Fit the Message—If There is One
The memelike exhibition will please crowds of most stripes, but it’s doomed by an excess of unorganized, sentimentalist content.
In the Driverless City, How Will Our Streets Be Used?
A glut of speculative plans reimagine the future streetscape. But is it a road to nowhere?
"Keep Off the Grass": Why Fighting for Free Access to Green Space Implicates Us All
In an opinion piece for Metropolis, Alexandra Hagen, CEO of Swedish firm White Arkitekter, explains why countering commercial forces is central to protecting urban space.
A Russian Parks Program Creates Over 350 Public Spaces and Nurtures Local Design Talent
Costing less than glitzier parks in Moscow, the Tatarstan initiative is revivifying the local design and manufacturing bases with a "teach a man to fish" approach.
Year in Review: Did We Reach Peak-Biennial in 2019?
The proliferation of these events begs the question: Who is the targeted audience of a biennial, and whom does its staging benefit?
A House in Cologne Packs Living, Work, and Gallery Space Into an Ultra-Skinny Lot
Young local architect Wolfgang Zeh spent years on the house, which responds to the unique spatial advantages and constraints of the once-decrepit lot.
Architecture Reckons with the Future at the First Sharjah Architecture Triennial
The three-month-long show occupies two decommissioned public sites and uses the Emirati city’s intact urban texture to discuss contemporary issues in architecture.
The University of Monterrey’s Newly Landscaped Campus is a Departure for the Car-Centered City
Designed by American firm SWA, the area includes plantings and pedestrian routes that envelop buildings by the likes of Tadao Ando.
A New Landscape in Montreal Weaves Together Icons of the City’s Expo 67
Encompassing a Buckminster Fuller–designed geodesic dome and an Alexander Calder sculpture, the intervention shows how the city is rethinking its world’s fair treasures.
"Southern Exposure" Uncovers the Proud Architectural Legacy of Chicago's South Side
In his new book, the journalist and photographer Lee Bey directs readers to some of Chicago's greatest architectural treasures, nearly all of them hiding in plain sight.
