Anjulie Rao

Anjulie Rao is a Chicago-based writer/journalist focusing on the built environment, equitable design, architecture criticism, and public spaces. She also teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Architecture+Interior Architecture and New Arts Journalism departments. Her bylines can be found in The Architect's Newspaper, Curbed, Metropolis, American Craft Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and Artsy, among others.

Anjulie Rao's Posts

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  Awards

  Introducing the Winners of ARCHITECT's 2023 Residential Architect Design Awards

  by Edward Keegan, AIA, Anjulie Rao, Ian Volner, Edited by Madeleine D'Angelo and Andrea Timpano

  This year's jury recognized 10 projects across categories including affordable housing, adaptive reuse, outbuildings, and more.

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  Climate Gloom

  Still Climate-Depressed—but a Little Hopeful—at the Climate Action Museum

  by Anjulie Rao

  In search of a salve for climate doom and gloom, Anjulie Rao visits the Climate Action Museum in Chicago, which opened in June.

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  Failure and Preservation

  The Politics of Architectural Neglect

  by Anjulie Rao

  Joyce Joumaa's new film "كیف لا نغرق في السراب / To Remain in the No Longer" explores the distressed state of the Rachid Karami international exhibition site in Tripoli, Lebanon, reminding of neglect within our own urban areas.

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  Universal Hubs

  When Faced With Dwindling Downtowns, Architects Can Support Growth from Within

  by Anjulie Rao

  In Boswell, Ind., Nowhere Collaborative shows us what a practice embedded in rural communities can look like, writes Anjulie Rao.

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  Citizen Architect

  Listen Louder: Rethinking the Role of Today's Citizen Architect

  by Anjulie Rao

  Anjulie Rao ponders a world where "architects see themselves not as uniquely trained to be leaders, but instead as a part of a vital ecosystem of collaboration that redistributes their power, passing the megaphone in order to center communities and not design," she writes.