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An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.

But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?

Few architects of the last century worked at the same scale as John Andrews. What’s surprising is how unfazed he seemed by it all.

The buildings’ stories, not just their architectural qualities, are the focus of the exhibition.

Why is this replica here? Why is there a deep-rooted collective association between Barragán and Mexican identity? What lies behind the towering terrace walls?

The category Directed by Child of the Architect dominated this year’s Architecture and Design Film Festival.

The dissident architect László Rajk activated the vast possibilities of the present by invoking collective memory.

The people and things that John Wilson assembles in his beguiling anthology remain unassimilable in their bizarre singularity.

The latest iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial is not a place, it’s a direction. Who knows where it’s going?

American Framing is overly eager to claim new ground for something that is surely unsustainable in the long term.

“Trying hard to be the New York Film Festival—not the Lincoln Center or Upper West Side Film Festival.”

Therapy-speak for those bitten by the shopping bug.

A tale where there’s never enough room, where nothing but the essential lasts, where there aren’t morals so much as morality.

What is at stake in Flowcharting is the role that computation might play in a project for a “progressive” architecture.

For the most part, Emerging Ecologies occupies a mundane topography of composting toilets, upcycled materials, bioshelters, and geodesic domes.

Within so much physical unobtrusion and almost self-negating structures, you’ve got to supply your own atmospheric narrative.