Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

In 1921, Loos titled his first essay collection Spoken into the Void; the work was intended as a critique of his Austrian contemporaries’ ignorance of modern lifestyles.Indirectly, the “void” in the ...

Sean Canty, assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder of Studio Sean Canty, invited Casey Cadwallader, American fashion designer and Creative Director of ...

Before books, there were scrolls. The ancient Romans, like the Sumerians, stored their extensive scroll collections in “cells,” or pigeonholes (nidus, forulus, or loculamentum), or on pegmata, ...

1 See Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, “Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism,” Perspecta 33 (2002): 73.. 2 Koolhaas, quoted by Beth Kapusta, The Canadian Architect Magazine 39 ...

1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 79–135.. 2 See Aristotle, The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair (London: Penguin, 1981).. 3 The ideology of the ...

Such small foreign policies should be the objectives of future global planning mechanisms in transfrontier regions such as Tijuana-San Diego. As we look at the region’s landscape, several design and ...

The ocean remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us of its influence—a lost airplane, a shark attack, an oil spill, an underwater earthquake—but we tend to ...

1.La Casa bella, founded as a design magazine in 1928, changed its name to Casabella in 1933: it was only then that it began to concern itself almost exclusively with architecture.. 2 In her memoirs, ...

1 The U.S. Green Building Council has codified the link between building, rebuilding, and sustainability in its LEED program, promoting the reuse of old buildings to “extend the lifecycle of existing ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the hidden mechanics and visible output of design practice in order to track the shifting role ...

The title of this essay refers to the dance composition “Still Here” by Bill T. Jones. 1 Wilson Dreck, “Julian Francis Abele,” unpublished article, 3.. 2 Article in Philly Talk, unsigned, 1970, 27.. 3 ...