Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
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I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect
And no amount of data or complex modeling will rectify the building industry’s staggering impact on the environment. Design culture itself needs to change. → Read More
I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect
And no amount of data or complex modeling will rectify the building industry’s staggering impact on the environment. Design culture itself needs to change. → Read More
The United States gets a new kind of atlas
A team of landscape architects and researchers at Penn produced a new collection of maps in support of the Green New Deal. → Read More
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL’s Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were “away.” → Read More
20 years ago, the world as we know it was born
On the 20th anniversary of Y2K, here’s what the people behind the era’s most influential products have to say about design in the third millennium. → Read More
Reviving the lost art of sticker bombing
Inside one Hamburg gallery, unpretentious curators invite visitors to slap stickers wherever they want. → Read More
Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why?
“There are lots of great jobs out here, but they’re getting swallowed up by huge companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.” → Read More
Designers’ job satisfaction is plummeting. But why?
“There are lots of great jobs out here, but they’re getting swallowed up by huge companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.” → Read More
This Norwegian underwater restaurant is a design marvel
Designed by the architecture firm Snøhetta, Under descends 16 feet below the cold waters of Lindesnes, Norway. → Read More
This map collects the world’s lost monuments. But it’s more than ruin porn
A group of artists is trying to capture the disappearing architectural monuments of the last century, from Baltimore to Belgrade. → Read More
This map collects the world’s lost monuments. But it’s more than ruin porn
A group of artists is trying to capture the disappearing architectural monuments of the last century, from Baltimore to Belgrade. → Read More
The world’s most revolting font is made out of gerrymandered voting districts
Shout-out to Texas’s 15th congressional district and Ohio’s 7th and 12th, whose unlikely shapes made a new font called Ugly Gerry possible. → Read More
The world’s most revolting font is made out of gerrymandered voting districts
Shout-out to Texas’s 15th Congressional District and Ohio’s 7th and 12th, whose unlikely shapes made a new font called Ugly Gerry possible. → Read More
Design is complicit in the border crisis. Some architects are speaking out
Border security is a $53B business globally, but a group of architects are urging their peers not to work on detention facilities and walls: “It is not the health of buildings that is at stake today, but the health of our society and democracy.” → Read More
The most practical proposal for Notre-Dame has nothing to do with rebuilding it
The latest in a long series of conceptual designs for the damaged site suggests constructing a temporary space for events next door. → Read More
How to take a selfie, according to Rembrandt
A new book—along with a slew of new exhibitions—focus on the Dutch master’s proclivity for painting his own face. Remind you of anyone? → Read More
You’ve heard of slow TV. Snøhetta’s latest project is slow tourism
In the mountains around Innsbruck, Austria, subtle architectural interventions ask visitors to “reflect, both inwardly and out over the landscape.” → Read More
Remembering Phil Freelon, a visionary architect who championed diversity
Freelon has died at the age of 66. He worked tirelessly to make architecture more diverse and inclusive—and designed some of the most influential American architecture of the 21st century. → Read More
17th-century Tulip Mania is alive and well—on the blockchain
This may be the first great piece of blockchain art. → Read More
America’s housing crisis, summed up in 3 charts
Rents are rising while incomes stagnate. It’s an “unprecedented” situation, as a new Harvard report details. → Read More