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At g3arquitectos, Juan Alfonso and María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardon have spent nearly three decades building spaces that strengthen communities, inspire solidarity, and imagine more equitable ways of making cities.
At g3arquitectos, Juan Alfonso and María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardon have spent nearly three decades building spaces that strengthen communities, inspire solidarity, and imagine more equitable ways of making cities.
Isadora Hastings García and Lizet Zaldivar López on rebuilding homes in rural Mexico after natural disaster, and why lasting resilience begins with ancestral knowledge.
Bobby Johnston and Ruth Mandl of Brooklyn-based CO Adaptive discuss why the built product is just one phase in a material's life, and how stewardship, not completion, defines their practice.
For B L D U S co-founders Jack Becker and Andrew Linn, healthy architecture begins with local materials and vernacular construction.
For Nick Hopson and Klara Rodstrom, a "scrappy" ethos allows Hopson Rodstrom Design Co. to thrive on a residential and socially oriented portfolio.
D'Arcy Jones of Vancouver-based D'Arcy Jones Architects discusses craft, curiosity, and client relationships.
At Future Firm, Ann Lui, Craig Reschke, and Linda Chávez Baca expand architecture to build a more equitable city.
Anda and Jenny French of Boston-based French 2D discuss their approach to materializing the subversive potential of domesticity.
David J. Lewis, Paul Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki speak with the host Ana Miljački about the “productive oscillation” between academic research, speculative drawing, and the material realities of building that defines their practice; LTL’s trajectory from the “opportunistic” spatial inventions of early New York interiors to an existential focus on biogenic materialities and the climate crisis; and their publications that reorient both the classroom and the construction site.
In this episode, the founder of Morphosis recaps a career defined by “troublemaking.” He discusses framing architecture as a collaborative, cinematic process, the shift from private residences to international competitions and federal work, and the unique challenges of working in Los Angeles.
Resource Sharing, Solidarity Building
The Red Line, by competition winners Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati of Topophyla and Gabriel Castro-Andrade, is a site access strategy that uses bold and simple components to enhance safety and orderliness on construction sites.
Kevin Malawski writes about a midcentury Athens pathway to the Acropolis designed by Dimitris Pikionis.
Catalina Cabral-Framiñan visited three sites in Japan to understand how post-industrial regions confront their histories of extraction and try to revitalize their communities.
The multidisciplinary artist presents his work in a public lecture.
In this episode, the co-founders of NYC-based nARCHITECTS discuss rewriting briefs, expanding missions, engaging with communities, their resistance to architectural closure and fascination with “almost buildings,” and the value of leaving room for misusers.
In this episode, the co-founder of NYC-based Leong Leong discusses world building, feedback loops between aesthetics and politics, and professional growth as a reflection of ego death.