Practice

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

The first rule of redlining is — do it yourself!

“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…

“If a diagram is done right, it can engage the viewer as much as any perspective rendering.”

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 and Detroit, we head across…

Who said architecture students have to be architects?

J. Michael Welton writes about architecture, art and design for national and international publicati ons. He is the author of Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand (Routledge, 2015). When Studio-Tag opened in the Plant Building near New York City’s Times Square in April, it introduced a concept for commercial interiors as revolutionary as…

More than just an old-school power-lunch scene, The Four Seasons restaurant has long been considered a paragon of the international style and quintessentially New York. So when it was announced that the Philip Johnson–designed restaurant, located within the tony Mies-designed Seagram Building, would be shutting its doors on July 16, it caused quite a stir.…

At the Aalto-Theater in Essen, Germany, the annual Red Dot Gala recently honored outstanding product designs — as judged by a panel of 41 — running the gamut from software tools and power tools to furniture and personal accessories. While all of the categories offered up some exciting and innovative finds, the kitchen and bath…