Field Notes on Design Activism: 7
This is the seventh and final installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy
What Happens to the Workplace When the Workers Become the Bosses?
Employee-owned companies are a growing force in America. What lessons could they hold for workplace designers?
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa
When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day.
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything
Viktor Frankl’s lost lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find the deepest source of meaning.
Half of the Future Is Buried in the Past
The Laboratory of the Future, the Eighteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, is open through November 26.
Design Q&A: Industrial Facility
In designs ranging from chairs to a toilet brush, Industrial Facility forgoes a signature aesthetic in favor of long-term relationships and rigorous inquiry.
The Spiritual in Art: An Interview with Maurice Tuchman
Maurice Tuchman, LACMA’s first curator (1964–1993) of 20th century art, remains an outsized figure in the history of art in Los Angeles.
Francisco Cantú Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.
Brief Conversations #1
In high school, I started reading Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. I remember Truman Capote’s interview with his housekeeper like it was yesterday. A few years later, I got hooked on