The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...

How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. What is architecture’s impact on the physical and social wellness of society? Why are our buildings making us sicker? MASS Design Group explores ...

A circa-1981 poster, by Italian graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, for six titles in the Oppositions Books series produced by the IAUS. Image © Vignelli Center for ...