Issues

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Concrete Terror: Race Barriers and Vigilantism in the United States

Essay by Chat Travieso
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Yes We Can

Photographer Cesar Russ documents the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States
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Designing Venues

Iker Gil interviews Doug Garofalo
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Farmer’s Work

Architect Kathryn Clarke Albright studies farmers markets and reveals the pleasures and demands of the farmer’s work
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In Good We Trust

John Hickenlooper and Bruce Mau present the Denver Biennial of the Americas
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Living in Cabrini

James Lockhart, a former resident of Cabrini Green, shares his memories with Iker Gil about growing up in the Chicago Public Housing.
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Prelinger Archives

Films from the Prelinger Archives showing the type of energy and ideals that the United States had during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s
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Logistical Ecologies

Project by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape with MODUS Collective
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis
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Futures: Expo Boston ‘76

Text and chronology by Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit
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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
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Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown
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Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.

Observations

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2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
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Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
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Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future

Essay and photographs by David Schalliol
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Almost Perfect

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo and Yuka Martin Mendo
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From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
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Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

Project by Cédric Van Parys
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The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast

Essay and project by Kate Catterall
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Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay

Essay by Sean Burkholder and Karen Lutsky
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Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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The “Passion Tax” is History

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 the englewood nature trail 01

The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
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Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum
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Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius