Practice

This iPad app carries tracing paper into the digital realm.

It’s become somewhat of a New York City design community tradition, and recently it returned for its fifth year ­— the annual Duravit summer party cohosted by Architizer. With the Rio Olympic Games right around the corner, the festivities took on an Olympics theme, which, in a sense, was a throwback to the very first…

The traditional craft of hydraulic cement tile making, in which the pattern is inlaid with pigmented cement as opposed to printed on a substrate, offers a bold and vibrant look for any wall or floor, making it as popular today as when it was first invented in the 1800s. Now Sausalito, California–based Clé is shaking…

If there’s one word that describes the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Qu eensland, Australia, it’s “open”. With very few interior walls, there’s nothing but air between the majority of its studios, lecture halls and pin-up corners. All these spaces occur over, around and on top of each other, slipping past themselves through…

Architects: Showcase your work and find the perfect materials for your next project through Architiz er. Manufacturers: Sign up now to learn how you can get seen by the world’s top architecture firms. It is a debate that has raged for decades among architects and architectural journalists alike: How can words encapsulate the intricacies of the built environment without…

In this ongoing series, we aim to give you a travel guide to cities around the globe — with an archi tectural twist. These tours offer chances to experience great design away from the traditional tourist hotspots and an alternative angle on the world’s metropolises. After New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit and Havana, we go…

For Aravena, the point of architecture is to improve people’s lives.

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“I call my work a ‘parallel practice’ … You can’t have a linear practice,” says architect Toshiko Mo ri about her over 30 years of work in the architectural profession. The breadth of Mori’s work can be categorized by this idea of a ‘parallel practice,’ one that rigorously observes the pluralities, the contradictions and the complexities…