Notes from Metropolis
| Faith in Design |  | |
By Susan S. Szenasy
Dîa-logue(s)
| Dialogue | | |
Observed
| • | | Equal Footing | | |
| • | | Cultural Continuum | | |
| • | | Micro Living | | |
America
| Putting the Hate on Hold | | |
By Karrie Jacobs
A longtime opponent of Atlantic Yards visits the new Barclays Center and comes away grudgingly impressed.
Perspective
| Rereading Design for the Real World | | |
By Christopher Hawthorne
Why does Victor Papanek’s scathing, 41-year-old critique of the profession still read as if it were written today?
In Production
| No Need to Hide | | |
By Shannon Sharpe
Georges Moanack’s electric socket can take pride of place, at home or in the office.
Materials
| Areca Alchemy | | |
By Avinash Rajagopal
Tjeerd Veenhoven finds a sustainable way to transform palm leaves into a sort-of leather.
Productsphere
| At Home in the Office | | |
By Paul Makovsky
Designers open up corporate environments to new ways of working.
Reference Page
| Reference | | |
By Cristina Gonzalez
Ben Katchor
| Mewling Re-branded | | |
By Ben Katchor
“A team from Feldmice + Lyre visits the town and sets to work devising a new image and future for Mewling.”
| | | International Style | | |
By Thomas de Monchaux
The rise and fall (and perhaps, rise again) of U.S. embassy architecture
| The Trouble With Washington | | |
By Laurie Olin and Avinash Rajagopal
The noted landscape architect dissects how clumsy, ill-considered security measures have impacted our nation’s once majestic capital.
| Modernists At Play | | |
By Paul Makovsky
The children of midcentury masters reflect on growing up in a world surrounded by design.
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