Architectural League
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The Architectural League nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism and stimulates debate on the critical design and building issues of our time.
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#ArchLeagueExplore In this Current Work lecture, graphic designer @michaelbierut discusses his long experience translating architectural ideas into two dimensions. Watch the video: ow.ly/8VrX50KWear
TOMORROW, November 8 at 12 pm ET, Online #CurrentWork with Lacol cooperativa. Hear from the Barcelona-based group generating community infrastructures through architecture, cooperativism, and user participation. Moderated by Anna Puigjaner (@MaioTweets). Register: archleague.org/event/lacol-co…
Don’t miss it! Online #CurrentWork with Lacol cooperativa this Tuesday, 11/8 at 12 pm ET. Hear the Barcelona design cooperative discusses the La Borda housing project and its “horizontal” approach to architectural practice. Moderated by Anna Puigjaner MAIO. archleague.org/event/lacol-co…
#ArchLeagueExplore For #AmericanRoundtable , Aaron Cayer wrote about the history of labor strikes and community protests in River Valley, Maine, where colonization, resource extraction, and industrialization have led to high rates of poverty & disease: ow.ly/Oapl50KW81L
#ArchLeagueExplore How can cultural institutions affect social & economic conditions in rural areas? Amanda Coen traveled to Brazilian museum and botanical garden Inhotim to understand more about its impact on the local community. Read her essay: ow.ly/He5F50KW7Ci
'It’s in the architecture, in the building, that the complex systems we operate within do become visible, and where we begin to see the collisions and fractures in these systems.” Read our new interview with Rural Studio's Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith: ow.ly/URXA50LkIAG
Want to tour Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s new office at 7 World Trade Center? There are few tickets left for this League First Friday. Register now to join us on November 4 at 6 pm archleague.org/event/first-fr…
#ArchLeagueExplore Ithaca-based practice HANNAH explores the architectural logic of 3D-printed concrete: ow.ly/jv4e50KW7ki
#ArchLeagueExplore In the 1980s, the League asked designers to explore the potential for City-owned vacant lots to help meet affordable housing needs. Learn more: ow.ly/vW6T50KW4EK
NOW AVAILABLE: In ep. 6 of I Would Prefer Not To, Hood Design Studio talks about avoiding clients who view landscape architecture as “the parsley around the pig,” and how ideas he has long been incubating are only now being broadly received. ana miljacki
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Congratulations to Rural Studio, winners of this year’s #NationalDesignAward given by Cooper Hewitt for Architecture/Interior Design. Go to our website to watch program co-directors Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith discuss their work. ow.ly/KO9L50L1pHC
IN-PERSON FIRST FRIDAY AT SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill): Join us on November 4 at 6:00 p.m. for a look inside the firm’s new office at 7 World Trade Center. REGISTRATION OPENS TOMORROW AT 10:00 AM EDT. archleague.org/event/first-fr…