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Equity
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Viewpoints
Bryan C. Lee Jr. on NOMA’s Vision for Equity
The incoming National Organization of Minority Architects president talks advocacy and access during the organization's annual conference.
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Viewpoints
Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes
As part of their Alternative Practices project, Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy spotlight firms that are turning traditional Western design thinking on its head.
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Profiles
Pallet’s Tiny Home Villages Build a Bridge to Permanent Housing
The Washington-based company creates rapid response shelter villages that can be constructed in a matter of days.
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Projects
An Urban Island as Affordable Housing
LOHA Architects are expanding the definition for permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles
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Profiles
Ifeoma Ebo Is on a Quest for Urban Healing
Through trauma-informed design processes, Ebo aims for community stewardship and empowerment.
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Viewpoints
Grace Farms Foundation Holds Third Annual Design for Freedom Summit
Industry leaders gather to discuss topics from ethical decarbonization to ways to eradicate modern-day slavery in the materials supply chain.
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Viewpoints
These 15 Must-Reads Will Prepare You for 2024
We've gathered some of our best 2023 articles to inspire, provoke, and galvanize you for the year ahead.
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Viewpoints
Why Does Architecture Education Cost So Much?
Tuition fees have doubled, wages are still low, and many professionals are deep in debt. Can we do something about it?
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Projects
How South L.A. Is Fighting Gentrification with Affordable Housing
As one of the city's poorest areas transforms into a hive of activity, the housing authority and private developers are redeveloping languishing housing with community support.
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Viewpoints
Outdoor Amenities Resource: 25+ Guides to Designing Better Outdoor Amenities
METROPOLIS gathers tools, guides, and manuals to help landscape architects, architects, and interior designers leverage the holistic benefits of outdoor amenities.
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Viewpoints
How to Improve the Function and Experience of Outdoor Amenities
This section of the METROPOLIS Outdoor Amenities Resource offers tools, guides, and manuals to help you improve the function and experience of outdoor amenities.
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Viewpoints
Embracing Differences: Understanding and Designing for Neurodiversity
When we design for neurodiversity—be it autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder—we design for everyone.
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Projects
This San Francisco Affordable Housing Development Is on a Mission
Discover how Mithun's Casa Adelante 2060 Folsom is combating climate change and advancing social and racial equity.
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Viewpoints
When We Design for Autism, We Design for Everyone
Magda Mostafa, autism design consultant and architecture professor at the American University in Cairo, discusses inclusive design.
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Projects
A New STEM Lab Serves Underprivileged Youth
A partnership with Google, the free computer science space invites Oakland, California, high schoolers to explore coding, robotics, and welding.
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Viewpoints
Chris Laing Builds a Bridge Between Architecture and the Deaf Community
Metropolis speaks with architectural designer and activist Chris Laing about his new open-source platform Deaf Architecture Front.
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Programs
4 Thinkers Inspiring Optimism in Design
Metropolis hosted the second annual Design Optimism conference at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, bringing architects and designers together for a day of finding hope in radical new ideas.
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Viewpoints
Architectures of Spatial Justice Reads Like a Challenge to Do More
The volume by Dana Cuff, founder of UCLA's cityLAB, scrutinizes justice through the lens of architecture's privilege.
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Viewpoints
What’s the Future of the Workplace? Ask the Workers
Metropolis's May/June 2023 issue looks at the different levels of freedom and agency that workers have in a post-pandemic world.
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Programs
Take the Positive Impact Personality Quiz
The Positive Impact Personality Quiz will help you discover your passions and temperament for creating change through design.