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How do architects, designers, and planners help divest from systems of oppression and instead invest in the communities and people most negatively affected, ask Deanna Van Buren and Garrett Jacobs of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.

Tech offices are dark and storefronts are empty. But, as residential towers by Studio Gang and OMA show, the future of San Francisco’s new mixed-use district is planned for diversity and affordability.

Ongoing crises with coronavirus and social inequity indicate this is the time to reimagine life in cities. Various experts speak out.

The exhibition "Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People," on view through December, plays up Doshi’s fusion of Indian vernacular traditions and Modernism.

A well-researched book by Mario Alejandro Ariza explores the future of Miami and South Florida in the face of the climate crisis and rising seas.

In this work of fiction, Yale Architecture associate dean Phil Bernstein imagines the future of the profession.

A seasoned architect shares lessons from his career with emerging designers.

Architect and educator Fabian Llonch reflects on his late mentor Enric Miralles, the Spanish architect and cofounder of EMBT Architects, who died 20 years ago in July. Two new books survey his work.

The digital world of video games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons has opened up a way of seeing architecture, writes author Andrew Blum.