Investing in noise absorption and covering strategies to create acoustical privacy especially in open-plan environments can improve worker satisfaction and performance.
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Designed for philanthropist Janet Ketcham, the Pole Pass Cabin sits at the edge of a waterfront site on the San Juan Islands archipelago, located at the northwest corner of the continental United States. 
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Join IAC in Pittsburgh for the 17th Annual Arts and Crafts Conference, "Multiple Modernities: From Richardson to Wright and Beyond – The Arts and Crafts Movement in Pittsburgh and Environs" to explore the multiplicity of expressions of the Arts and Crafts movement in various media ranging from stained glass to architecture to painting!
Discover the abundance of sites of central importance from Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Unco...
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The theorist and historian discusses the popularization of architect-driven ideas about digital technology, the revolutionary architecture of the 1990s, and what’s next in architectural education.
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The radical architectural magazine "Bau" is given its due at an enlightening exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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"I think we are living in an age where criticism is not particularly welcome, whether it is political criticism or corporate criticism. It has become a dirty word." -Rem Koolhaas in an interview from the July/Aug issue about OMA's work with Fondazione Prada
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"Japan is perhaps the kind of culture that I most relate to and for which I have an enormous amount of respect." -Rem Koolhaas in an interview from the July/Aug issue about OMA's work with Fondazione Prada
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"We were really prepared—and this may be one of the most important driving forces with our work in general—to be highly alert to the development of clichés. The combination of industrial space and art is a huge cliché, so that was definitely the thing to beat here." -Rem Koolhaas in an interview from the July/Aug issue about OMA's work with Fondazione Prada
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An architectural mind-set is proving to be a valuable tool in the fashion world for the young designer Daniel DuGoff.
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"Prada is very confident about what we do, so we don't have to overcome the typical skepticism that exists between the architect and first-time clients. We have to overcome other forms of skepticism, but not that one." -Rem Koolhaas in an interview from the July/Aug issue about OMA's work with Fondazione Prada
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In the third installment of the Biophilia and Healing Environments series, designers benefit from the task of incorporating living structures into their work.
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"But we discovered that gold is actually a cheap cladding material compared to traditional claddings like marble and even paint." -Rem Koolhaas in an interview from the July/Aug issue about OMA's work with Fondazione Prada
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Is it possible to solve an unsolvable problem?
Wege Prize believes it is, and they're putting their money – $30,000 of it – on the planet’s most curious and passionate undergraduate students to show us how it’s done. 
This international, transdisciplinary design competition is focused on the circular economy and open to any undergraduate student in the world! Start building your team today at http://www.wegeprize.org/
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The architect-planner Jan Gehl discusses the ideas, influences, and concepts that have informed his philosophy and practice.
Having been instrumental in helping Copenhagen shape its identity as the world’s most walkable city, architect and planner Jan Gehl discusses the ideas,...
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