A Conversation with Paul Groth
In 2015, Paul Groth, professor emeritus of geography and architecture at the University of California, Berkeley spoke with PLATFORM Contributing Editor Sarah Lopez about his career, research methods, and field.
5 Blaxploitation Posters That Define a Redefining Movement
The cinematic genre changed the way Black characters were presented on film. These 5 works from Poster House’s latest exhibition helped put it on the map
Stephen De Staebler @ Crocker
No artist I can think of, past or present, fused transcendent impulses and the weight of mortality as thoroughly and convincingly as Stephen De Staebler.
Practice of Architecture Podcast
What lessons on architecture, practice, and change can we learn from AIA Gold Medal winners Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa?
Luxury for All
In 1867, as the first modern urban park system was being built in Paris, George Sand argued that its extravagant artifice was a vital public good.
A Typeface Designed to Help Rectify Underrepresentation, One Glyph at a Time
The latest addition to Christoph Koeberlin’s supercontinent superfamily builds a bridge to Latin-based African languages
Tented love: how Senegal created a spectacular new African architecture
After independence in 1960, the country cast off western influences and forged a new African style full of triangular forms, rocket-shaped obelisks and rammed earth.
San Francisco’s Debt to Finland
Eighty years ago, two California designers traveled to Helsinki to see master architect Alvar Aalto.
Can Companies Force Themselves to Do Good?
A new kind of corporate structure, the perpetual-purpose trust, can make the values of pro-social companies permanent.
Tauba Auerbach @ SFMOMA
Tauba Auerbach’s first museum survey at SFMOMA reveals a comprehensive body of work that exhibits no signature style.
Scholar Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, Justice for Palestine, Critical Race Theory & More
World-renowned author, activist and professor Angela Davis talks about the prison abolition movement from her time as a Black Panther leader to today.
Tracing a Winding Path from Cuba to Florida to Maine with Poet Richard Blanco
A poet’s journey toward home.
Ai Weiwei Is Trying to Find His Way Home
The artist and activist on his new memoir, the true cost of freedom, and why home is sometimes about much more than where the heart is.
Joan Didion and the Voice of America
No country but America could have produced Joan Didion. And no other country would have tolerated her.