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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
We Design Beirut Sheds Light on Lebanon’s Ever-resourceful Creative Community
The inaugural citywide festival incorporated exhibitions that addressed the relevancy of craft and the importance of sustainable design.
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Viewpoints
The Denver Art Museum Explores Nature’s Eternal Sway over Architecture and Design
Biophilia: Nature Reimagined brings together 70 works that explore the relationship between nature and creativity.
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Google’s Ivy Ross Makes Sense of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with Ivy Ross, Google's vice president of hardware design, to discuss Making Sense of Color, now on view during Salone del Mobile 2024.
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Finding Beauty in Climate Futures
Five recent exhibitions, books, and initiatives highlight utopian visions of design that leaves a positive impact on the environment.
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Projects
WholeTrees Brings Structural Round Timber to the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire
the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire makes use of a new carbon-smart structural round timber (SRT) by Madison, Wisconsinbased timber products company WholeTrees Structures.
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Viewpoints
MoMA Misses the Roots of American Environmentalism
A historical survey of eco-conscious Modernism at MoMA underrepresents both the origins of sustainable architecture and the contemporary dilemmas of architectural discourse.
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Viewpoints
A New Exhibition Explores Climate Change Through Craft
On view at Pittsburgh’s Contemporary Craft through January 2024, Climate Awakening: Crafting a Sustainable Future uses art to engage with the issue of environmental impact.
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Brooklyn Museum Presents an Exhibition of Artist-Made Zines
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is on view at the Brooklyn Museum November 17 through March 31, 2024.
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Charting the History of Environmental Activism Through Posters
The impactful images showcased in Poster House’s upcoming exhibition helped shape public debate on environmental issues, but failed to modify behavior.
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Celebrating “America’s First Lady of the Loom”
Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes is the first monographic exhibition of American textile designer Dorothy Liebes in over 50 years.
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Viewpoints
I Went to the Venice Biennale and Saw the Future
Curated by Lesley Lokko, Venice’s Biennale Architettura 2023 challenges dominant narratives of architectural production, shifting focus toward decolonization and decarbonization.
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Viewpoints
For These Gardeners, Planting Is a Powerful Political Act
Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, celebrates radical gardeners of all stripes.
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Programs
There Is Always a Design Emergency
Design curator Paola Antonelli and Metropolis editor in chief Avinash Rajagopal discuss design responses to some of humanity’s most pressing issues.
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Products
16 of the Best Young Designers from Milan 2023
A vast array of youthful design talent was on display during Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile—these are some of our favorites.
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Viewpoints
Confronting Carbon Form, Embodied Carbon’s Complex Cousin
A recent exhibition at Cooper Union put forward a cogent definition of Carbon Form, our infrastructure’s deep indebtedness to extractive modes of production.
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Viewpoints
A New Exhibition Explores Gaetano Pesce’s Drawing Practice
Titled Unframed, the display of drawings from the last four decades illustrates the radical designer’s jubilant thinking on paper, with works mostly taped onto the gallery walls.
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Profiles
Yasmeen Lari: Starchitect Turned Climate Activist
Pakistan's first woman architect turned away from glass, steel, and concrete to launch a low-carbon, self-build movement for climate refugees and the landless.
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Viewpoints
Sculptor Oscar Tuazon Radically Deconstructs Architecture
This American artist fashioned Building—an expansive wooden structure that is a sculpture, model house, meeting place, and event forum all in one—for an exhibition in Switzerland.
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Viewpoints
The Architect of Art Nouveau Who Brought Beauty to the Masses
Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York offers a reassessment of an often-overlooked designer who helped define the look of 20th-century Paris.