Articles by Architizer Editors

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Virtual reality snuck up on us. The technology has long been the stuff of science fiction, the ultim ate merger of spectator and spectacle, man and machine. Rudimentary forms of VR have been around since the 1850s, when fashionable Parisians were delighted by the stereoscope, a binocular device that immersed viewers inside “3D” images. As time…

From networking to sightseeing, there were almost as many reasons to go to the AIA Conference on Arc hitecture as there were attendees. Yet there is one goal that every participant of the American Institute of Architects’ annual convention has in common: firsthand exposure to the latest building products and design technologies at the expo portion.…

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We’re celebrating I.M. Pei’s centennial with a roundup of his best projects!

The Yale Art and Architecture Building may be the best known work by noted Brutalist pioneer Paul Ru dolph, but his sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot campus for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received renewed attention in recent years. Hired by the university in 2007, Boston-based designLAB architects spent six years renovating and extending the campus’s innovative centerpiece,…

Saying that British technology company Dyson Ltd. is committed to research and development could be the understatement of the century. The company spends $8.8 million every week on R&D for new products. It operates a campus in the United Kingdom where 1,500 of its engineers and scientists work on future technology. There, they ably demonstrate…

Watch this exclusive video about the making of the new A+Awards trophy.

While the most powerful "poetry" of architects comes in built form, there are those who use words to articulate their passion, pride or even desperation as it relates to design.