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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
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In Your City by the Lake
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises / Chicago
Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
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A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
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Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Couplings 2016
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Sensing and Sensibility: Politics and Technology in the Contemporary City
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Fundraising for Mexico and Puerto Rico
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Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
House of the Architect
The “Passion Tax” is History
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Hanover and Over Again!
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
Where the Sky Meets the Earth
The Super Roof Turns 50
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
A Receding Coast
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
This is not the Huarte House
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
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