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The Metaverse allows for a total divorce of design services from the messy obdurance of construction labor.

MoMA’s latest exhibition seeks to amend the architectural canon the museum had a major hand in packing.

There was no heroic image of housing design to be had in “Reset: Towards a New Commons,” and this was precisely its strength.

When everything is on fire, why worry about the little ember of a problem inside you?

Seeing everything through the lens of defense is the product of a landscape where form follows real estate speculation.

A tribute to Christopher Alexander

NYRA talks to prominent labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about changing our views about work.

Zoe Zenghelis, a founder of OMA, now finds delight in delicacies of color.

Peter Eisenman memorably tussled with the late Christopher Alexander on a Harvard debate stage. He talks to NYRA about that match-up and his aversion to Alexander’s ideas about “comfort” and “harmony.”

Christopher Alexander’s architectural ideas continue to exert an influence.

What’s the case against double loading a corridor?

Everything changed overnight.

A new volume claims to present a representative slice of contemporary “progressive” architecture. But why this architecture now?

The vision of the new Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute is one of intent rather than form.