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Profiles
Meet the 2025 Net Zero Conference Trailblazer Award Nominees
METROPOLIS announces the 2025 honorees for the Trailblazer Awards, celebrating leaders in climate and community impact.
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Viewpoints
Lessons in Global Design from Expo 2025 Osaka
What this year’s pavilions revealed about culture, sustainability, and the future of architecture.
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Finding Beauty in Climate Futures
Five recent exhibitions, books, and initiatives highlight utopian visions of design that leaves a positive impact on the environment.
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Two Monographs Showcase Design that Does Good
West coast firms Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and David Baker Architects both have new monographs out with Oro Editions.
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Products
Constantin Boym Creates a Collection of DIY Animal Houses
Ecophilia is a do-it-yourself experiment in inter-species design.
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7 Places to Look for Design Inspiration
ThinkLab’s U.S. Design Industry Benchmark Report for 2023 reveals the top places architects and designers look to kindle creativity.
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Products
10 Architecture and Design Books to Add to your Spring Reading List
Metropolis editors have gathered ten new and upcoming architecture and design books that are must-reads for Spring 2022.
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Three Insights into the Future of Product Specification from ThinkLab’s Hackathon
A new book titled 100 Ways to Maximize Your Physical, Digital and Human Assets shares how designers are rethinking specification in the “phygital” era.
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Projects
26 Case Studies in Design for Impact
Metropolis's Design for Impact showcases how innovative architects and interior designers are leading the charge in creating a healthy, just, and sustainable world.
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Viewpoints
A New Book by Shannon Mattern Reveals the Consequences of ‘Smart Cities’
A City Is Not a Computer reassesses computational models of urbanism, arguing the impossibility of summarizing our messy cities with tidy narratives.
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Echo’s Chambers Investigates Architecture’s Aural Dimension
A new volume charts the ever-changing relationship between architecture and acoustics from Borromini to Corbusier.
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Barbara Bestor on Du Bois’s Data Portraits
The Los Angeles–based architect shares how this collection of infographics and visionary drawings kept her mind busy during quarantine
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A New Book Chronicles the History of Cranbrook Academy of Art
With Eyes Opened includes profiles of 200 artists associated with the influential art school over more than eighty years.
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Strelka Institute’s Three-Year Research Agenda Culminates with The New Normal
Headed up by Benjamin H. Bratton, the research rubric and yearbook-like release collate "fungible platforms" that investigate data's role in global spatial restructuring.
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Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture and design firms across the country have shared numerous toolkits and manuals, but will they help build a future rooted in equity?
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Emerging Designers and Major Brands Alike Are Redefining What It Means to be Sustainable
The recently-released book Radical Matter by London consultancy FranklinTill surveys a major shift in material thinking.
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The Indiana Magazine Highlighting its State’s Oft-Overlooked Architecture and Design Luminaries
Brothers Jon and James Sholly are founders of the Indianapolis-based graphic design studio Commercial Artisan, so when they launched Commercial Article, an offshoot publication, in 2005, they understandably saw it as a s
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A New Book Tells the Story of a Modernist Mall Turned Political Prison
The building, El Helicoide, is an especially striking example of failed Modernism, one that multiple scholars are seeking to unpack and explore.
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Viewpoints
Legendary Graphic Design Firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv Is Releasing a 60-Year Monograph
The New York firm, founded in 1957 and still in operation, has produced many iconic logos for corporate America.
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Step Inside John Pawson’s Colorful Photographic Universe
A new book from Phaidon celebrates the British architect's surprisingly colorful approach to image-making.