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Why we're starting a print magazine after 20 years of publishing digitally
When I started Archinect 20 years ago, in the summer of 1997, the internet was still many years away from becoming a replacement for newspapers and magazines. Since then, the media landscape has...
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A House Without A Hierarchy
Born out of the 2008 financial crash, the Barcelona-based studio MAIO cares less about form (although their forms are striking) and more about the politics of practice. At the heart of their work is...
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Social Soup
It’s been thought for some time that life emerged from the primordial soup. It now seems that humanity is the product of social soup. Social soup is the bio-cultural-environmental complex of opinions,...
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Portuguese-firm Brandão Costa Arquitectos Shows Off Their Library for the...
Small Studio Snapshots is one of Archinect’s regular recurring series. In it, we take a look at the ins and outs of running a small-scale practice. What hurdles do you come across? Do you want to grow...
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Heroes, Rumors, Cults: Designs on Architectural Celebrity
I1 heard a lot of stories from my friend about Zaha, like: she had a giant red couch that all of her interns had sex on; she installed a phone in the studio at Cooper Union so she could call her...
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The Arsenal of Inclusion & Exclusion
A project several years in the making, Interboro Partner’s new book The Arsenal of Inclusion & Exclusion is a field-guide to the often-imperceptible codes and conventions that are as responsible,...
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Architecture: the Geontopolitics of Knowledge and Time
“Where is Vermilion Sands? I suppose its spiritual home lies somewhere between Arizona and Ipanema Beach, but in recent years I have been delighted to see it popping up elsewhere — above all, in...
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Object Objections
Like many of their contemporaries, the Vienna-based studio iheartblob have taken an interest in emerging schools of philosophy, notably object-oriented ontology and thermodynamic theory. But, unlike...
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Digital Library, Analog Building: The Story of Rand Hall (Chapter 2)
Chapter 2: Inciting Incident, Inciting Building Before the construction of Rand Hall, Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, gifted his architectural library to establish the...
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Silent Walls: The Architecture of Historical Memory in Spain
In 1977, Spain celebrated its first free general election since the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship that followed, which together lasted over four decades. Despite that this restoration of...
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Assessing Surveillance: Infrastructures of Security in the Tohono O‘odham...
In March of 2014, United States Customs and Border Protection awarded Elbit Systems of America a contract to design, construct, and deploy Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT) at an unspecified number of...
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Digital Library, Analog Building: The Story of Rand Hall (Chapter 3)
Chapter 3: First Action First Renovation Non load-bearing partitions were added between the columns to create spaces for offices and seminar rooms on the east side of the second floor of Rand Hall in...
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Digital Library, Analog Building: The Story of Rand Hall (Chapter 4)
Chapter 4: Second Action Second Renovation Rooms for data processor and faculty offices were installed on the first floor of Rand Hall for the Cornell Computer Center in 1959. Additional interior...
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Digital Library, Analog Building: The Story of Rand Hall (Chapter 5)
Chapter 5: Halfway Point No (Fire) Escape Prior to 1968, Rand Hall contained a single staircase located at the center of the building. That year the first floor of Rand Hall was renovated and the...
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Cooking Sections Explains Their Efforts to Adapt to Changing Ecosystems...
At low tide, a cluster of cages emerge from beneath the recessing waters of Loch Portree. The emptying water gives way to a rocky floor, and with the addition of cushions, the familiar infrastructure...
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Designing on Unstable Ground #2: an Interview with Yoshihiro Kato Atelier...
We are never so aware of architecture as when it breaks down. Our lives require that buildings slip into the background, that we can trust their promise to shelter. But when the ground trembles, when...
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The User’s Right to the City
The “right to the city” has become a rallying call for social movements worldwide [1]. While the slogan serves as a generic container for a variety of issues that might otherwise go ignored, its...
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DATA-AND-MORTAR; Will the Technological Revolution Render Architects Obsolete?
Globally, multinational tech companies are moving beyond the digital realm to enter the physical domains of where, when, and how we will produce our cities in the future. Grounded in the...
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Suburbicide
I. The United States Air Force does not publish statistics on suicides committed by pilots of their unmanned combat aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, but it is the most significant bodily...
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A Cut Above the Streets: Robert M. Hayes, Co-Founder of Coalition for the...
Expelled from domestic spaces through cuts to social subsidies, layoffs, and the speculative real estate policies of the 1970s, the population of homeless individuals in New York has ballooned with...
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Technoflesh: An Interview with Simone Niquille on Normalizing the Body...
Creator of the design and research practice Technoflesh, Simone Niquille draws from her background in graphic design, photography, and branding to demystify the processes behind the digitization of the...
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Curating Development: Carson Chan on Forming Community Through Building Groups
Although trained as an architect, Carson Chan is mostly known for his work as a curator and writer. In 2006, after working for Barkow Leibinger Architects and the Neue Nationalgalerie's architecture...
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Crip Camp: An Interview with Filmmaker Jim LeBrecht About Accessibility,...
The politics of disability are fundamentally spatial. They respond to the struggle for equal access and representation against different forms of socio-spatial discrimination and aspire to alternative...
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Towards Neuro-Spatial Diversity: Thoughts on the Relationship Between...
“Too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans… what’s normal anyway…” opines mixed-race, LA-born R&B artist Miguel on his 2015 track, “What’s Normal Anyway.” The artist’s...
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Husos Architects: One Guy, One Bulldog, One Vegetable Garden, and the Home...
Project by Husos. Text by Camilo García and Diego Barajas (Husos)This is a small refurbished house, 495 square feet (46 square meters) in size, in a modern variation on the traditional Spanish...
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