September 2017 Table of Contents

Our jury selected these six studios as some of the most compelling in U.S. architectural education today. Read more

Third-year master's students at the University of Virginia School of Architecture investigate breathing new life into the site of a historic, but now defunct, coal mine. Read more

First-year master's students at the Université Laval Faculty of Planning, Architecture, Arts and Design investigate solutions that would give once-nomadic Inuit populations in Québec agency in designing new settlements. Read more

Third-year master's students from the University of Pennsylvania developed schemes to adapt existing infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt, to create new public spaces and recapture lost sites in the crowded city. Read more

First-year B.Arch students at Woodbury University investigate the building blocks of materials, tectonics, and modeling. Read more

Master's students in architecture and urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated possible post-industrial transformations of a former mining region in Poland. Read more

A University of Toronto master's studio in landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture reexamined the fundamental relationship between water and the city. Read more

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Christopher Hawthorne explores what a new generation of architecture school deans, the rise of the Free School in Los Angeles, and online courses by Gehry and Hays reveal about the democratization of the profession. Read more

How the President's immigration policies threaten to make an existing worker shortage in the construction industry even worse. Read more

Will the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity? Read more

Hiring experts lend some advice on how to be more efficient in attracting the best new talent, and how not to break the bank in the process. Read more

This Chicago firm seeks to make the ordinary seem strange. Read more

Takashige Yamashita Office sandwiches LVL between plywood sheets for this 3.5-inch-deep roofed structure near Mount Fuji. Read more

ARCHITECT has put together some tips for selecting and specifying these versatile fixtures. Read more

Mills + Schnoering Architects Read more

Built in 1956, the Grade II-listed house is for sale for $1.6 million. Read more

Vibrant prints on clay-coated paper invigorate residential spaces. Read more

Value is created, not assigned. Read more

What does "the public" really mean? Read more

Seattle and Taipei, an ocean apart, both offer innovative solutions to geographical challenges. Read more

The “One Belt, One Road” initiative takes the lead in global infrastructure. Read more

Starting this September, "Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985" explores how 20th-century design movements shaped the cultural scenes of both places. Read more

Projects by Marlon Blackwell Architects, NBBJ, Forum Studio, CannonDesign, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Kliment Halsband Architects, Philips Design, and Anderson Mikos Architects received recognition across four categories. Read more

The project will bring new life to the West Princes Street Gardens while respecting the historic landscape and nearby Edinburgh Castle. Read more

The illustrated book follows teens of past, present, and future Chicago, with the aim to inspire students get to know and take care of their city. Read more

The Los Angeles art research organization draws on architecture and photography to present the social and cultural changes of these cities and how they formed an identity separate from their colonial origins. Read more

Harvard GSD's dean, Mohsen Mostafavi, and photographer Iwan Baan collaborated on a new book about architect John Portman. Read more

In the wake of the white-supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., Ned Cramer argues, it is even more pressing that the University of Virginia build the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Read more