Mind Over Matter
The Next Sustainable Building Won’t Need Shades—It’ll Cool Itself
From elephant-skin concrete to rotating fin walls, architects are reinventing façades as living, self-regulating systems that think about the sun.
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Sustainability
Who Pays When Nature Fails?
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Beyond Buildings
The Future of Mexico City Is Underwater
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Architecture 2030
The Mass Timber Tipping Point Is Closer Than You Think
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Sustainability
When Nature Becomes the Architect: Mindcraft 2025 Explores Design Systems Beyond Human Control
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Mind Over Matter
Are Architects Ready for Materials That Think for Themselves?
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Sustainability
Air Pollution Is Killing Us. Can Architecture Save Us?
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Technology
The Pursuit of Better Begins with Specification
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Buildings
Why CMU Remains the Foundation of Safer Schools
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Sustainability
Can Architecture Become a Weapon Against Pollution?
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Practice
A Carbon Reduction Offer They Can’t Refuse
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Technology
The Bright Advantage: How Natural Light Transforms Spaces
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Products
Why Spanish Furniture and Lighting Are Having a Moment—And Why València Is the Place to See It
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3D-Printing
Concrete, Rewritten: How 3D Printing Is Inventing a New Architectural Language
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Design
Timber Takes the Spotlight: Grafton Architects’ First U.S. Project Raises the Bar for Mass Timber Design
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Design
Serenbe’s Radical Vision: The Agrihood That Rewrites the Rules of American Development
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Technology
Design’s Global Stage: How the iF DESIGN AWARD Became the Oscars of Innovation
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Design
The Cult of Emptiness Finds a Temple in Japan
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Design
When Buildings Refuse to Stay Still
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Carbon Positive
A Fake Crisis. A Real Disaster. A Quiet Solution.
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Technology
Sophisticated Solutions for Architectural Exteriors
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Buildings
Low Carbon Concrete Key to Hyperscaler Campus
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Technology
Designing in the Dark: How AI’s Hallucinations Could Fill Architecture’s Biggest Blind Spots
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Practice
Beyond Greenwashing: AIA Funds Radical Rethinks of Building Materials, Tools, and Public Space
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Beyond Buildings
Intelligens vs. Instinct: Can Architecture Still Save Us?
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Practice
What Pancratia Hall Reveals About the Enduring Value of Concrete Masonry
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Architecture 2030
A Letter to Architects from Infrastructure Engineering: It’s Time We Designed Like We’re on the Same Team
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Practice
The Secret Behind Intuit Dome’s Low-Carbon Concrete
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Technology
Unprocessed Potential: Can Raw Trees Replace Engineered Timber?
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Design
Resilient by Design: How Architects Are Creating Beautiful Homes for a Changing Climate
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Design
The War on Rot: Advances in Science to Future-Proof Wood
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Technology
The Value of GIS for Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning
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A Critic's Notebook
Designing the Monstrous Sublime: A Field Guide to the Anthropocene’s Hybrid Creatures
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Design
Enchanted Hills Camp Rebuilt with Premium Redwood
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Tech and Touch: Navigating the Fluid States in Built Environments
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Design
NEUF’s Sustainability Department Unveils Low-Carbon Brick
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Mind & Matter
Color Revolution: How Cutting-edge Smart Materials Are Redefining Design Aesthetics and Functionality
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Technology
Breaking the Mold: How Composites Are Reshaping Architecture
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Technology
Transforming Material Selection: How Acelab’s Materials Hub is Shaping the Future of Architecture
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Mind over Matter
Revolutionizing Architecture: Electronic Ink Transforms Buildings into Dynamic Displays
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Mind Over Matter
Building the Future: How Medellín’s Social Urbanism Is Blueprinting Urban Revitalization
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Architecture 2030
Architects on a Mission: The Path to Zero Carbon in Building Design
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Mind & Matter
Glass Reimagined: The Newfound Potential of Structural Glass in Sustainable Design
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Mind & Matter
From Landfill to Legacy: Digital Tools Turn Construction Waste into Building Gold
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Products
Calling All New and Innovative Products! Editor's Product Call Is Open for Submissions
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Architecture 2030
Rising to the Challenge: Yasemin Kologlu on Building Momentum for Climate Action at COP29
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Technology
HVAC’s AI Evolution Is Here
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Mind & Matter
Exploring the Viability of Recycled Plastic in Architecture with Polygood Panels
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Sustainability
This Sculpture Made of Green Cement is a ‘Rallying Cry for Change’
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A Critics Notebook
The Classic Beauty of Reuse: Biopartners 5 Balances Modesty and Sustainability
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Architecture
Deborah Berke Awarded the prestigious 2025 AIA Gold Medal: A Visionary Transforming Architecture with Inclusivity and Sustainability
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Mind & Matter
Revolutionizing Refrigeration and Beyond: The Rise of Ultra-Thin Vacuum Insulation Technology
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Design
Chicago Architecture Biennial Appoints Florencia Rodriguez as First Latina Artistic Director for 2025 Event
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Design
What the Sand Palace Tells Us about Resiliency
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Mind & Matter
A Blueprint for Reimagining Urban Spaces
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Practice
Design for Decarbonization: 20 Valuable Tools and Resources
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A Critic's Notebook
AMAA Unfolds, Showing How Architecture Can Make New Out of the Old.
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Design
A Must-Have for the Architect’s Toolbox
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Design
New Exhibit Explores How Oklahoma Built California
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Design
Shining a Light on Innovation: ArchLIGHT Summit 2024 Illuminates the Future of Design
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Archtober Explores NYC’s Evolution
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Design
The Next Big Trend? It’s Terra Cosmos: Merging the Magic of the Cosmic with Earthly Creativity
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Practice
Imagining Abundant Futures.
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Technology
Building Resilient Communities Requires a New Approach
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Carbon. Positive
A letter to Architecture from MEP Engineering
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Design
The Remarkable Design Advantages of Concrete Block
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Design
Building Community through Housing, Sustainability, and Design
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Practice
Taming The Unruly Climate Beast
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Mind Over Matter
Building Against the Mold: A Climate-Resilient Approach
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Architecture 2030
Paper or Plastic?
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Design
Tokyo Transformed: A Journey Through Urban Innovation
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Design
Using Data to Design Great Cities
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Architecture
Shaping the Future of Architecture: AIA 2024 Conference Set to Inspire and Innovate
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Practice
Designing for Deconstruction and Circularity in Construction
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Design
The Zero Carbon Marvel of Gig Harbor
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Design
The Latest Innovations in Designing the Smart Home of Tomorrow
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Mind Over Matter
Building the Future with Snow: An Architectural Innovation in Greenland
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Technology
Accessibility Is Sustainability—and It Can Be Beautiful, Too
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A Critic's Notebook
The Beautifully Brutal Truths of B+
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Buildings
The Rise of Insulated Metal Panels in Architectural Innovation
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Architecture2030
A Paris Paradigm Shift
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Practice
Housing Justice, by Design
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Mind & Matter
Elevating Architecture: The Revolutionary Potential of STFE in Light Construction
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Practice
The Future of HKS
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Mind & Matter
An Interview with Pritzker Prize winner Riken Yamamoto
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Architecture2030
A letter to Architecture from Landscape Architecture
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A Critic's Notebook
The Landscraper Passes: Antoine Predock, FAIA, 1936-2024
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Mind & Matter
Revolutionizing Construction: The Rise of 3D-Printed Nanocellulose
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Practice
How Architecture Can Learn from Native America
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Mind & Matter
Innovating the Future: Cairo's Young Entrepreneurs Pioneer a Sustainable Material Revolution
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Practice
10 Transformative Principles for a Sustainable World
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Practice
SRG Partnership Merges with CannonDesign to Forge a Future of Sustainable and Socially Responsible Architecture
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Mind & Matter
The Hottest Year on Record Spurs Innovation in Climate-Adaptive Building Materials
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Carbon Positive
COP28 and the Built Environment Community
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Design
Achieve Energy Efficiency Goals with Innovative Lighting Controls
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Design
Reduce a building’s environmental impact with these innovative weatherization strategies
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Reach Sustainability Goals with High-Efficiency Heat Pumps and HVAC Equipment
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Design
Increase energy efficiency and save money with on-site technical assistance from local utility
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Venice Biennale
Carlo Ratti Appointed Curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
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Carbon Positive
Carbon Positive: Caring for the Buildings We Have
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Design
The Power of Provenance
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Design
Digital Twins Can Drive Sustainability Opportunities
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Sustainability
Re:Arc Institute Symposium to Focus on the Care of Social and Ecological Systems
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Multifamily Executive
Young Renters Embrace Community and Green Features
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Sustainability
Breaking the Mould
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Design
EV Charging Stations are a Smart Investment for Clients and the Community
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Design
Reach Retrofit Sustainability Goals by Partnering With an Innovative Utility Company
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Urban Design
Learning From Poughkeepsie
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Carbon Positive
Carbon Positive: Putting Decarbonization Back on the Global Stage
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Press Release
AIA Releases New ‘By the Numbers’ Publication
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Sustainability
Meet 10 Experts Leading the Charge on Sustainable Design
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Sustainability
Q+A: Kjell Anderson, LMN Architects
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Sustainability
Q+A: Seonhee Kim, Design Collective
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Sustainability
Q+A: Bradford C. Grant, Howard University Department of Architecture
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Sustainability
Q+A: Sadaf Jafari, SGA
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Sustainability
Q+A: Greg Mella, SmithGroup
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Sustainability
Q+A: Anyeley Hallová, Adre
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Sustainability
Q+A: Illya Azaroff, +Lab Architect
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Sustainability
Q+A: Heather Gayle Holdridge, Lake|Flato Architects
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Sustainability
Q+A: Kathleen Hetrick, Buro Happold
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Sustainability
Q+A: Anica Landreneau, HOK
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Sustainability
Q+A: MoMA’s Carson Chan Offers Inside Look at New ‘Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism’ Show
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Buildings
The Moody Center Transforms Austin Entertainment
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Design
Dual-Fuel Homes Can Achieve Net Zero
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2024 AIA Awards
AIA Now Accepting Entries for 2024 COTE Top Ten Awards
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Rewilding
Architects in the Wild
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