Alternative Credentials: How Self-Taught Architects Changed the Course of Design
Formal training wasn’t their foundation — curiosity, materiality, and experimentation were. The resu lts? Some of architecture’s most enduring works.
Inspiration: Stories
In-depth case studies on amazing architecture and the building-products that helped make it a reality.
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Montessori for Millennials: Architecture That Lets Adults Choose
What a century-old teaching method tells us about the way we want to use space.
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In Defense of “Unbuildable” Architecture: Why We Still Need Big, Visionary Ideas
What’s the point of creative freedom if we’re only designing what’s already been built?
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Modernism, Postmodernism and the Eternal Design Dilemma: What’s Next?
Rather than oppositional, these movements offer distinct design strategies — both vital to shaping t omorrow’s built environment.
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Speak Easy: Designing the Next Generation of Podcast Studios
Architects are helping content creators move from background noise to front-page presence through c areful sound and spatial planning.
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Form Follows Freedom: Relaunching Foster + Partners’ Sainsbury Centre
This pioneering museum rejected corridors, categories and constraints, creating a framework for art to speak on its own terms.
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Suburbia 2.0: Design Solutions for Sustainable Sprawl, From Dead Ends to Destinations
Can cul-de-sacs and big box zones evolve into thriving neighborhoods? More and more architects seek to prove there’s life after sprawl.
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Shapeshifting Spaces: How Phygital Design Is Reshaping Reality — and Architecture
Architecture is no longer static. It’s shifting, responding, and existing in multiple realities at o nce.
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Color Optional: How Grayscale Became the Default Design Setting
As architectural palettes shrink, it’s time to ask: what does building in black, white, and grey say about us?
