Oliver Wainwright is the architecture and design critic for the Guardian. Trained as an architect at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, London, he has worked for a number of ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the hidden mechanics and visible output of design practice in order to track the shifting role ...

1 BIM refers to Building Information Modeling, a digital platform for collaboration between architects, engineers, and the construction team. BIM data includes 3D information about the parts of the ...

Architects of whatever ethical stripes were not immune to these concerns. The cascade of public sentiment and the lobbying by interested parties precipitated action among legislatures for state ...

Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol —the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022—was devoted to the environmental conservation of the peatlands of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago spanning what are ...

Harvard Design Magazine 51: Multihyphenate examines multihyphenation as a mode of creative practice, a political response, and economic imperative in our 21st century neoliberal world.

But can “community” really rescue us from the deadening world of social dissolution, grab-it-yourself materialism and individualized, selfish, market-oriented greed? Community has always meant ...

In an office park in suburban Los Angeles, set within a pristine landscape garden designed by Isamu Noguchi, there is a funny monument made of piled stones; the artist dubbed it The Spirit of the Lima ...

There are great benefits to using sustainably produced, fresh, local fish. When fish are imported from far away, many of those benefits are negated by the high economic and environmental costs of ...

The ocean remains a glaring blind spot in the Western imagination. Catastrophic events remind us of its influence—a lost airplane, a shark attack, an oil spill, an underwater earthquake—but we tend to ...

The ubiquitous lumber product known as the 2×4 does not, in fact, measure two inches thick by four inches wide. The naming of this building material is the result of compromise between forestry ...

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.” Thus begins The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi’s final meditation on the Nazi death camps, written four decades after his liberation from ...