Lab explores projects to lessen effects of sea level rise on SF Bay

A $5.8 million design competition that will select 10 multidisciplinary teams and assign each a different bayside setting. Each team will have $250,000 to work with.

An Open Letter to AIA Executive Director Robert Ivy

By Stephen Zacks.

How Some Architects Are Protesting The AIA—By Leaving It

Months after the AIA’s letter in support of Trump, architects are divided on whether to incite change from within or protest by leaving.

Lycée Schorge by Kéré Architecture

On the fringe of Koudougou, a city in Burkina Faso with 132,000 residents.

Curry Stone Design Prizes Announces the Social Design Circle: 100 Winners for 2017

The Prize will name 100 practices over the next twelve months as part of the Circle.

The Elbphilharmonie, Like a Fabergé Egg With a Wondrous Secret Inside

Finally complete.

The History of the Bauhaus Reconsidered

An exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris suggests that the school’s evolution is more complex and contradictory than it first appears.

13 Stunning Inner Courtyards

What is it about a courtyard that is so appealing?

Game Changers 2017: Architecture Lobby

All is not perfectly well in the world of architecture, and this advocacy group is looking to improve it.

How to Become a Social Impact Designer Without Going (Permanently) Broke

Katherine Darnstadt’s Latent Design firm.

Richard Neutra’s Modernist masterpiece in Silver Lake named national landmark

Neutra lived here for decades.

Remaining Hopeful When Stormclouds Gather: A Primer on Post-Election Design Activism

By Eva Hagberg Fisher.

Simplicity trumps size in 30-story glass tower at 350 Mission

John King on 350 Mission.

Video: Alexander Girard, A Modernist Rooted In Folk Art

“A Designer’s Universe” at the Vitra Design Museum.

Can Preservationists Save L.A.’s Late Modernist Landmarks From the Wrecking Ball?

Designed by architects William L. Pereira and Charles Luckman (with Paul Williams and Welton Becket) and one of the last original pieces of the airport master plan.

How to Inject Poetry into Architecture

Carme Pinós in Conversation with Orhan Ayyüce.

Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that’s never gone out of fashion

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano recall the sheer joy and bravado – and the struggle – of creating it.

Director of Global Diversity at Perkins+Will: Work-Life Balance Isn’t Just a Health Issue – It’s About Talent Retention

Finding work-life integration as an architect.

Keeping environmentalism alive during a Trump presidency

Will environmentalists be able to make any headway in the next four years?

Tributes to Sea Ranch at 50 look to future as well as past

Influence or history?

Berkeley sprouts creative housing, topped by a working farm

On the local front.

Donald Judd, Artist, Revealed as a Philosopher-Critic by His Children

Rainer and Flavin Judd, Donald Judd’s children oversee his legacy.