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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises / Chicago
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
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Couplings 2016
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
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JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
House of the Architect
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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
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Where the Sky Meets the Earth
The Super Roof Turns 50
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
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
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
A Receding Coast
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
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
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
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