Hi everyone, This is my last issue at the helm of Frontier Magazine. Below you’ll find a bumper crop of links, updates on past stories, and other notes. Get ready to open a bunch of tabs! But first, a round of thanks and an administrative note. Frontier Magazine wouldn’
A conference about accelerating the right kinds of impact
Benjamin Swett’s meditations on a life lived through photography
The Built Environment
On two films at this year’s Architecture and Design Film Festival
The Built Environment
A celebrated British architect suggests ways to think about and enjoy buildings
The Built Environment
Carol Ross Barney’s urban agenda is finally receiving its due
The Built Environment
Eighteen months in an award-winning urban midrise
Sharing big ideas shaping architecture and cities. Through essays and interviews, we give you exciting new ways to think about places near and far.
On creating materially and contextually mindful buildings in and around Washington, DC
In a new book, architects talk in depth about the museums they’ve designed
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, and projects that deserve your attention
A new book offers ideas for how we can survive the “long emergency”
Celebrating a milestone with beautifully designed libraries
Two books on performance—and how we relate to performers
On a new book Frontier designed and edited for a longtime partner
Let people become mayors of the medians and presidents of the empty plots
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
The Toronto architect discusses the imperative of flexibility, fostering community, and responding thoughtfully to existing contexts
Will the Olympics die out before host cities learn how to harness them to achieve good things?
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world