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Research
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Viewpoints
9 Designers Revolutionizing Bio-based Materials
From 3D-printed date seeds to moss-covered facade panels, these projects showcase how bio-based materials are shaping the future of design.
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Viewpoints
Antje Steinmuller Wants to Get the Housing Question Right
Beginning her tenure this past summer, Taubman College’s new chair of architecture is rethinking housing through identity and density.
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Viewpoints
These University Labs Expand the Agency for Future Architects
The following schools, labs, and incubators are contributing innovative solutions to make change both down the street and around the world.
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How Construction Materials and Technologies Are Evolving
Follow METROPOLIS’s most compelling coverage of construction materials and technologies, from next-gen concrete to circular design.
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Products
Autodesk’s Forma Gets You Ahead of the Curve on Carbon
Autodesk Forma leverages machine learning for early-phase embodied carbon analysis.
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ThinkLab Shares Insights on the Dynamics of Sustainability in Decision-Making
ThinkLab helps us understand how the realities of product selection can maximize designers’ influence and impact.
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How Firms Are Putting Sustainability Into Practice
New ThinkLab research reveals the path to a more sustainable future is not just possible but is already under way—one space at a time.
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How Far Has 3D-Printed Architecture Come?
METROPOLIS tracks the development of 3D-printed buildings, and how they promises to revolutionize speed and sustainability in construction.
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Products
4 Exciting New Possibilities for Concrete
The next generation of carbon-neutral and recycled concrete products is bringing foundational change to the world’s most common building material.
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Viewpoints
How the Built Environment Evolves with the Times
METROPOLIS's Summer 2024 issue explores the function of buildings and the forces that shape them.
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Viewpoints
Put These Timber Architecture Books on Your Shelf
Four recent titles highlight the past and future of timber architecture, from forest to building products.
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Profiles
Farshid Moussavi’s Open-ended Architecture Comes to the U.S.
The London-based architect keeps both her design process and her built projects fluid and ever-changing. The Ismaili Center in Houston will be her first project in the United States.
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Profiles
For These Students, New Technologies Unlock Ageless Construction Materials
Drawing upon references to indigenous knowledge, history, and nature, the next generation of architects and designers is reimagining how we build and what we build with.
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Programs
METROPOLIS Hosts Sustainability Lab Leadership Summit During NeoCon
At the METROPOLIS Sustainability Lab, leaders from industry associations and A&D firms deliberated about a more sustainable future for interior design.
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Profiles
Waechter Architecture Has An Expanded Vision for Mass Timber
Through its applied research on all-mass-timber construction, Waechter Architecture designs with simplicity in mind.
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Viewpoints
Discover the Cutting-Edge Ideas Transforming the Built Environment
METROPOLIS's Spring 2024 issue explores new approaches and technologies in architecture and interior design today.
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Profiles
MODU Creates Architecture at the Threshold
The New York–based interdisciplinary design studio straddles the boundaries of buildings and sites to deliver new results on heat, shade, and microclimates.
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Profiles
Mae-ling Lokko Designs from the Ground Up
The designer and architectural scientist is rethinking the fabric of the built environment by connecting the dots between agriculture, construction, and social equity.
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Viewpoints
How Architects and Designers are Dreaming of a Different Way
METROPOLIS's November/December 2023 explores the critical mass of experimentation with both the materials and methods of architecture and interior design today.
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Profiles
How Abraham Burickson Designs Experiences, not Things
In his new book "Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto," Abraham Burickson distills his methodology into a set of principles and practices.