Kristijan Markoc’s downloadable timber house challenges bespoke design. Can open-source housing cut costs without flattening climate, place and everyday life?
Rain Rhizome exposes the tanks, trucks and domestic labor replacing reliable water networks. Should architects improve these systems—or contest their necessity?
Omar Degan’s Pan-African Biennale 2026 challenges national narratives. But who defines African modernity—and who gets left outside the conversation?
Homo Faber in Venice makes craft a radical answer to AI. But can hand-making shape the future without becoming an elite luxury?
Otway Beach House turns flame-zone regulations into a formal language, asking whether fire-safe architecture can belong to the landscape.
AI makes real-estate listings seductive and cheap. But when does digital staging become deception, or housefishing?
C40 cities have ambitious climate plans. Emissions data reveals which cities are making hard political and infrastructural choices.
As heatwaves threaten the grid, passive survivability asks whether homes can remain safe, cool and affordable without electricity.
Justin Blinder’s Citi Bike intervention slows rides in rent-burdened blocks. Is punitive mobility design protest—or public coercion?
The White House ballroom fight turns preservation into a test of executive power, public memory and who gets to reshape America's symbolic architecture.
