March 12, 2026 Ι Bloomberg CityLab In the 1960s, America marshalled its massive breadth of military and civilian technological expertise for a mission that was deemed critical to the country’s national security and economic development. Generous government funding was directed to major corporations, including aerospace and defense industry mainstays, and to government labs, testing the… Continue reading Inside the Space-Age Bid To Build Millions of Homes in Factories
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Antifascist Architecture proposes new modes of practice for a collective political future
April 13, 2026 Ι Architect’s Newspaper It’s a popular time to be antifascist. For Antifascist Architecture authors Daniel Jonas Roche, a news editor at The Architect’s Newspaper, and Andrew Santa Lucia, an architecture professor at Portland State University, the point of antifascist architecture is not just to survive the moment of creeping authoritarianism that we’re… Continue reading Antifascist Architecture proposes new modes of practice for a collective political future
In Chicago, Adaptive Reuse Projects are Amplifying Local Nonprofits’ Missions
March 27, 2026 Ι Metropolis On the West and northwest sides of Chicago, where the corridors of real estate speculation and disinvestment careen perilously close to each other, architects are using legacy building stock to expand the footprint of non-profit organizations with burgeoning social missions. Future Firm’s Revolution Workshop building trades education hub, Lamar Johnson… Continue reading In Chicago, Adaptive Reuse Projects are Amplifying Local Nonprofits’ Missions
The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch Into Art
Jan. 31, 2026 Ι Bloomberg CityLab Toward the end of his career in the late 1970s, the architect Bruce Goff lived with his mother and a tuxedo-hued cat named Chiaroscuro in the small city of Tyler, Texas. He stopped work promptly at 4:30 p.m. each day to watch Star Trek. His favorite meal was roast… Continue reading The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch Into Art
Architecture’s Mercurial Moment: The GSD at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Nov. 20, 2025 Ι Harvard GSD Magazine Online With an unapologetic plurality, the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), curated by artistic director Florencia Rodriguez (LF ‘13), associate curator Chani Haouzi (MArch ’14), and associate curator Igo Kommers Wender, captures architecture at a particularly mercurial moment. Themed SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, this sixth… Continue reading Architecture’s Mercurial Moment: The GSD at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
In Chicago, a Soft Architecture Biennial for Hard Times
Oct. 4, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab As a child, artist and designer Jason Campbell felt the powerful presence of his mother’s linen collection. It was everywhere: in a dedicated closet, but also in the attic, a separate crawl space, the basement and an armoire. Later in life, Campbell, who is Black and a Chicago resident,… Continue reading In Chicago, a Soft Architecture Biennial for Hard Times
Can Anyone Save Gary, Indiana?
Nov. 4, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab On either side of the impeccably refined and classically domed City Hall and courthouse buildings that make up the largely vacant civic core of Gary, Indiana, are two stark white modernist buildings. Both were designed by Black architect Wendell Campbell, a founder of the National Organization of Minority Architects,… Continue reading Can Anyone Save Gary, Indiana?
Yesterday’s Schools of Tomorrow Face the Future
Sept. 11, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab When a solar eclipse passed through Columbus, Indiana, in May 1994, fifth-grader Josh Mings watched the cosmic ballet from the atrium of Southside Elementary School, a hulking Brutalist structure designed by architect Eliot Noyes. Completed in 1969, it’s among the town’s most famous — and daring — examples of… Continue reading Yesterday’s Schools of Tomorrow Face the Future
Affordable Housing for the Long-Haul
Summer 2025 Ι Chicago Architect In Chicago’s gentrifying and affluent neighborhoods, the struggle to build and preserve affordable housing is won through both penny-pinching resource efficiency and a willingness to open up the checkbook for more durable, long-lasting materials and finishes. The need to integrate supportive services is balanced by recreational amenities, especially when affordable… Continue reading Affordable Housing for the Long-Haul
Lamar Johnson Collaborative transforms a long-shuttered Chicago school into the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, centered around a new crystalline triangle atrium
Aug. 3, 2025 Ι Architect’s Newspaper Veteran Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher Barbara Johnson was teaching at Oscar DePriest Elementary School in 2013 when nearby Robert Emmet Elementary School was closed, one of four schools shuttered in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, part of the largest mass closure of schools due to declining enrollment and… Continue reading Lamar Johnson Collaborative transforms a long-shuttered Chicago school into the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, centered around a new crystalline triangle atrium