Architects and Designers Urge Action on Healthier Policy Priorities
Three recent initiatives outline how experts in the built environment are advocating for policy changes for public health and climate change.
Three recent initiatives outline how experts in the built environment are advocating for policy changes for public health and climate change.
With an unabashed embrace of the empirical, contributors assert something about how space is experienced.
Researchers, historians, and publishers at the biennial seek to forge closer connections between activism and the architectural profession.
At this year's event, exhibitors look critically at the dynamics of resource distribution and ecological stewardship.
Architects Advocate, an activist network of architects focused on climate change, describes the new tools it's releasing.
The architectural research organization has announced an open-ended, crowdsourced initiative to reconstruct and analyze the June 2017 blaze.
An expansive show at the ICA in London demonstrates how the activist research group uses spatial reconstructions to uncover human rights violations.
JustDesign.Us, a new certification system powered by an employee questionnaire, hopes to spotlight those architectural studios that are taking equitable labor practices seriously.
“We’re beyond the times when some ministry for infrastructure and public works can just come and do what they want to do, or what business interests make them do. The whole city needs to wake up.”
As Donald J. Trump is sworn in as president today, “Design as Protest” workshops will take place around the country, from New Orleans to New York.
All is not perfectly well in the world of architecture, and this advocacy group is looking to improve it.
The city's tragic fire has inspired debate about how we can plan safe, non-standard spaces that creatives will want to work and live in.
Metropolis's editor in chief looks forward to a more diverse architectural profession.
Author and preservation activist Roberta Gratz reminisces about her experiences with the Save the Theaters campaign.
The community activist and preservationist talks about what's become of New York's Theater District.
Even in our digital age, the urge to physically connect is still alive and well.
This community leader is helping to forge a healthy connection between urban farming and new employment opportunities for Detroit’s youth.
Akiko Busch discusses how a thoughtful citizenry can learn, understand, and act upon their findings as they observe the natural world around them
Building political coalitions and informing the public are essential
CAHR works with designers to protect human rights across the globe.