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  • Book Review: Alison Place's Feminist Designer and a Collective Call to Change

    Published December 12, 2023
    Feminist Designer: On the Personal and Political in Design examines the intersection of design and feminist theory, but doesn’t stop at representation. READ…

  • Designing Longevity: Design, Bitches' Rebecca Rudolph and Catherine Johnson on Design, Collaboration, and Learning

    Published November 15, 2023
    In their interview, Rebecca and Catherine talk about creating spaces that people want to be in and finding longevity through innovation. READ…

  • "Bad Architecture" is the deliciously daft dialogue on cringe-worthy design

    Published October 20, 2023
    "Bad Architecture" launched in March 2023 and releases quasi-monthly episodes hosted by the humorous duo of Sarah Tietje-Mietz and Erin Kennealy. READ…

  • New Chapters: Hood Design Studio’s Alma Du Solier on Landscape, Legacy, and Holding on to Your Power

    Published September 25, 2023
    In her interview Alma talks about designing new chapters for sites, empowering a great team, and working to have a positive impact on one person or site at a time. READ…

  • Beauty as a Social Right: Rozana Montiel on Finding a Solution Rather than Becoming the Problem

    Published September 4, 2023
    In her interview, Rozana talks about finding the overlaps between art and architecture, taking a stance with a design, and finding opportunities to act and make an impact on the world around you. READ…

  • Film Review: On the "Marvelous Weirdness" of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie's Perfect "Barbie" Movie

    Published July 23, 2023
    "Barbie" relies on the same imagination the toy required when we were children to provide the story and fill in the gaps. READ…

  • Furniture Review: Alda Ly Architecture and HBF's plush poufs are a classic and comforting accessory

    Published June 1, 2023
    Alda Ly Architecture's new furniture line adds a pop of playfulness and sense of softness to any space. READ…

  • Inside the Gilder Center: A Space as Marvelous as the World Around Us

    Published May 14, 2023
    Studio Gang completed a cavernous, expansion and renovation of the American Museum of Natural History as unbelievable as the museum's discoveries. READ…

  • Book Review: The Uncommon Sense of Thorpe and Wilkhu's The Sustainable City

    Published April 28, 2023
    Published by Horton Mini Press in 2022, The Sustainable City is a masterpiece by design writer Harriet Thorpe and photographer Taran Wilkhu. READ…

  • On Denise Scott Brown: Learning from her Life

    Published March 6, 2023
    Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect recounts the life of the renowned architect as far more than the determined woman standing hand-on-hip in front of the Las Vegas strip. READ…

  • AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

    Published February 13, 2023
    The coffee table anthology opens a window into the familial dedication and cultural reflection of "home." READ…

  • Movie Review: How the Colors of "She Said" Tell the Truth

    Published January 23, 2023
    In Universal Pictures’ new reporting drama, symbolic costuming supports the characters’ roles and light becomes the background. READ…

  • Book Review: Alexandra Lange's Meet Me by the Fountain

    Published November 28, 2023
    Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall shows how malls are a necessary and personal piece of each city—and by extension—the residents. READ…

  • TV Review: Only Murders in the Building Season 2 Returns to the Golden Age of Hitchcock Thrillers

    Published October 27, 2022
    Hulu’s Halloween show, affectionately named OMitB, is a design-lover’s Christmas. The crime-comedy puts the structural trench coats, warm autumnal tones, and darkened hidden passageways in spooky season. READ…

  • Book Review: Eva Hagberg's When Eero Met His Match

    Published September 30, 2022
    A personal memoir and history of Aline Louchhiem Saarinen discusses the power of words and design discourse. READ…

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    A Day in Fort Worth with Journalist Kate Mazade

    Published August 3, 2022
    Kate Mazade is a writer and journalist based in Fort Worth, Texas, where she covers community news and culture for FTWtoday. READ…

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    Book Review: Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies

    Published August 15, 2022
    Any building can give back to the public. This is a principle the architect Lina Bo Bardi lived by — or, at least, that was fundamental to her work. READ…

  • Book Review: Notre-Dame: The Soul of France ignites the cathedral's history before the fire

    Published May 31, 2022
    It has been just over three years since the Paris sky blazed over Notre-Dame. And despite investigation and reason, it still makes no sense. READ…

  • Book Review: Noushin Ehsan's new memoir shares the woman behind the architect

    Published March 21, 2022
    The book is a testament to perseverance, to starting over early and often, and to believing that you're never too far in to make a change. READ…

  • Exhibition Review: Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks, Just what can a little plastic block do?

    Published February 23, 2022
    Catered toward children, the exhibit breaks down the wonders of the built environment to a piece that fits in a small, sticky hand. READ…

  • Film Review: CODA, How Film Soundscapes Foster Identity Within the Built Environment

    Published January 21, 2022
    As the women-led, 2022 Golden Globe-nominee for Best Drama, “CODA” gives volume to how sound defines space and our place within it. READ…

  • Book Review: A Room of Her Own, Robyn Lea's photography book reveals layers and wealth of creative female minds

    Published December 8, 2021
    Lea managed not only to photograph women's homes but to capture the emotional range and overlapping characters of creative women. READ…

  • Strength and Softness: Amelia Tavella on Nature, Artistry, and Memory in the Mediterranean

    Published November 11, 2021
    Born on the island of Corsica, Amelia Tavella creates sanctuaries of majesty and delight that connect people back to the land from which they came. READ…

  • TV Review: Only Murders in the Building, Hulu's New Crime-Comedy is a Production Fit for the Stage

    Published October 28, 2021
    Created by John Hoffman and Steve Martin, the show follows a ragtag trio as they hunt down a killer in their Upper West Side Co-op. READ…

  • Exhibition Review: Immersive Van Gogh, Paintings, projections, and purchases spread across the U.S.

    Published August, 30, 2021
    Mauve, ochre, and chartreuse brushstrokes swipe across the wall as wide as my arm while bowstrings draw a low chord from a rumbling cello. READ…

  • Book Review: Women in Architecture, The named and unnamed who broke into the profession

    Published August 30, 2021
    Women in Architecture: Past, Present, and Future highlights female designers who have brought a personal and innovative contribution to the profession. READ…

  • Illustrating the Natural World: Studio-MLA’s Mía Lehrer on Parks and Gardens, Women's Leadership, and Taking Time to Explore

    Illustrating the Natural World: Studio-MLA’s Mía Lehrer on Parks and Gardens, Women's Leadership, and Taking Time to Explore

    Published July 14, 2021
    In her interview with Kate Mazade, Mía talks about the early influences that drew her to Landscape Architecture and how projects can advocate for communities, telling people's stories through water and ecology. READ…

  • Film Review: Cruella, Disney's Latest Version Draws on Design for Power

    Published July 26, 2021
    The geniuses behind “Cruella” are designers Jenny Beavan, Fiona Crombie, and Alice Felton—all of whom transformed the infamous two-toned nightmare into a daring and inventive victim of circumstance. READ…

  • Exhibition Review: For a Dreamer of Houses, Thinking about Home in Public

    Published May 17, 2021
    Dallas Museum of Art’s contemplative exhibition "For a Dreamer of Houses" is a timely collection after we've all spent over a year at home. READ…

  • Book Review: All We Can Save, Women Ask the Hard Questions about Survival

    Published April 26, 2021
    All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis is a collection of essays, anecdotes, and poetry that lament what we’ve already lost and incite action for what we must fight to reclaim. READ…

  • Book Review: Architecture for Teens, A Beginner’s Book for Aspiring Architects

    Published March 17, 2021
    Written by Dr. Danielle S. Willkens, Architecture for Teens is applicable, supportive, and timely—the book I wish I had when I was fifteen. READ…

  • NextGen: Auburn and Syracuse’s Kate Mazade on Architecture, People and Writing

    Published July 6, 2020
    ”I wish someone had told me not to be so hard on myself when making decision. Just do what you want to do next.” Interview by Julia Gamolina. READ…

  • The Expert: Publication Management during Uncertainty

    Published May 6, 2020
    The media industry reacts—hours or days or minutes later—with a story. This constant speed requires journalists to be nimble, and their editors to be more so. READ…