The Built Environment
Renovation Project
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
The Built Environment
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
The Built Environment
The Toronto architect discusses the imperative of flexibility, fostering community, and responding thoughtfully to existing contexts
The Built Environment
Will the Olympics die out before host cities learn how to harness them to achieve good things?
The Built Environment
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world
The Built Environment
On the definition of photography, sensing rather than seeing landscapes, and museums as drivers of sustainability and community
On learning to think about exhibitions, not just art
The Built Environment
On sufficiency and upfront carbon, through Lloyd Alter’s new book
Sharing big ideas shaping architecture and cities. Through essays and interviews, we give you exciting new ways to think about places near and far.
In Egypt, President Sisi speed-runs nearly two centuries of urban-planning ideas in service of his political agenda
Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler rethink architecture’s relationship to the inevitable
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, videos, or projects that deserve your attention
On the “narrative struggle” that monuments and markers represent
The New Orleans artist on extractive economies, resilience, and the emotional power of art
Organizer and writer Matt Hern reports from the new suburbs
On the web’s needless complexity and translating signals from one medium to another
On creative autonomy, acknowledging labor and laborers, and building relationships that will last decades.
On touring an Amazon warehouse and reading Heike Geissler’s “Seasonal Associate”
A new anthology with predictions of London a century from now misses the voices of today’s residents.
Two stories about helping the next generation
The AI researcher on identity, sexuality, language, and paying close attention to the data