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Politicians Under Surveillance
Commercial Strip Tease
Intelligence Artifacts: A Selection of Objects from the CIA’s Museum
Archiporn or Storylines? Creative Architectural Commercials as Challenges to the Communication and Marketing of Architecture
Musical Acoustics Research & Coordination Institute (M.A.R.C.I.)
Small / Large Inflatables
Zigzags in Mina del Morro
Metro Bilbao
Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower
Disciplined in the House of Tomorrow
The Alhóndiga Cultural Center and Other Architectural Dreams
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Communication as a Tool for Empowerment
Bilbao and the Magazine Nueva Forma
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years
Water Shore Habitat
Survivor Maracaibo
Living in Cabrini
Places, Not Spaces
Case Study #3: The UFO Houses
Case Study #4: The Whale
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Material Energies
CDF 2011 proposal
Prelinger Archives
De[FENCING]
What Amuses You?
It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature
A Disappearing Bilbao
The Second Strategic Plan for Bilbao
Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities
EMBT Goes East
In Good We Trust
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
Architecture Performing Live
What Kind of Vigilante Are You?
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The Big Shift
New Deal Utopias
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
The Lehman Invisible Monument
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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Concealed Carry, Repeat
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers
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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage
Materiality of Deletion
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Drawings, Storytelling, and Subjectivity
Drawing Tokyo
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Harlem Time Tracker
Typo
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
Two Million Homes for Mexico
Belly Flops
We Print Because We Can
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Repeat with Me
Utopias in the Gaps
A Sound Life
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Architectural Narratives
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Tracing Wright
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
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Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
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Filter Island
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Invention and Tradition
Logistical Ecologies
Second Sun
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
The Available City
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
The Party is Over
Birdhouses/Feeders
Open Manifesto for Mass Creation
Shanghai Streets
El Peine del Viento
What is Your Favorite Public Space?
A Village by the SEZ: The Dafen Sample of China’s Urbanization
Changes are Coming
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A Bastion of Design
Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
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Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
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The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Now / Arriving Fall 2023
Vigilantism issue launch
Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy
Battleship Berlin
Medium Matters: Architectural Representation After Construction
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Natalie de Blois at 100
Block Party
Architectures of Vigilantism
La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project
Walter Netsch at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Clive Wilkinson: The Theatre of Work
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Analog 2016
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Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle
Analog 2017
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John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Darren Bradley: Canberra’s Modernist Soul
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
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Christopher Marcinkoski: Speculative Urbanization and The City That Never Was
Unfinished Spaces
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Inhabiting the Water
Victor Lundy at 100
Couplings 2023
The Area
Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
A Lot With Little
Watershed Architecture
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change
There is Room
Starship Chicago II Premiere
Starship Chicago II
Couplings 2018
Jason Reblando: New Deal Utopias
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao
Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
Jonathan Solomon: Short-Cuts
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
In Your City by the Lake
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
Now / Arriving Spring 2024
Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Schweikher House
A Lot With Little Chicago
Albert C. Ledner at 100
Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Wrightwood 659
JNL Graphic Design studio visit
Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
A Lot You Got to Holler
Analog 2012
Analog 2011
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Eibar, the Factory City
Goodbye to the Amber Glow
The Super Roof Turns 50
Seeing Richard Nickel
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
At Home with the Collective
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
Will We, Chicago?
After Demolition
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
Atlantic City
A Receding Coast
Spontaneous Uses
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
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
Seeking Zohn
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
From the Mississippi Watershed
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
Unnamed Spaces
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Hanover and Over Again!
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
The “Passion Tax” is History
Lavadoiro
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
Only Girl Architect Lonely
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Story Poles
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Dialogues
Dialogues: Richard Wright
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Matthew Hoffman
Dialogues: Carol Ross Barney
Dialogues: Joe Valerio
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Dialogues: Architecture Is Fun
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