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E-1027: Innovation and Conflict

France’s Cote d’Azur is home to many famous buildings—from the casinos of Monte Carlo to museums hosting Chagalls and Picassos. But none tell a story of innovation, conflict, and perseverance...Read More

Copenhagen: Bicycle Haven

All my life I have enjoyed the freedom and adventure of riding around on a bicycle. I never knew how lucky I was to grow up where I did—a place...Read More

Pizza Oven Refinement: Enhancing the Dome and Cooking at Home

In 2021 I set out to build an outdoor pizza oven in what I had assumed would be a roughly 1 month process. The goal was to create the pizza...Read More

Public Architecture Around The Great Lakes

In between a glimmering inland sea and blocks of steel, concrete, and glass, Lake Shore Drive in Chicago endures as a reward for harnessing one of the Great Lakes. Throughout...Read More

Why Materials Matter: At Home Education

During the past 15 months many of us have been stuck at home due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some of us began sourdough starters, other learned music, and many escaped...Read More

Urban Karate / Urban Jujitsu

Space, Mass, and Flows in Hong Kong and Tokyo “The problem of the architect is to deal simultaneously with the different speeds of movement and different rates of perception, to...Read More

2019 AIA Women’s Leadership Summit

Thoughts: Reframe I spent my formative years in Iran, a traditionally patriarchal society on the verge of modernization. The country’s first western-style public university was established in early 20th century...Read More

Lisbon’s Azulejos

I visited Lisbon recently and was quite taken with this hillside city that overlooks the Atlantic—its sidewalk cafes, narrow stone-lined streets, colorful palette and especially its distinct layering of tiles....Read More

A Legacy Build in Shiwahori-Mura

Let me tell you a story: Almost two centuries ago, in a small village Northeast of today’s Hiroshima, Japan, a small, stalwart man toils away planning what will become the...Read More

Dutch at Werk: Designing with Water

The Dutch have an elevated sense for planning and adapting to the will of the sea. With one third of The Netherlands located below sea level, the Dutch have been...Read More

Barcelona: City of Literature

Barcelona’s narrow streets and fourteenth century stone walls contour numerous literary works, from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and Goytisolo’s Marks of Identity. More recently Barcelona winds...Read More

Less is More. More with Less

Lilian, for her scholarship, partnered with BuildOn, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the international education crisis by ensuring that children living in poverty can attend school. In 2017 she traveled...Read More

Public Architecture in the Deep South

Spanish moss festoon aged oak, cresting into a deep vignette of antebellum grandeur. This is the one point perspective of Oak Alley from the Great River Road — a panorama...Read More

Circular City Week: New York

Pressures on our waste management infrastructure have forced industries across sectors to address conventional sourcing and disposal within their supply chains. As an alternative, the circular economy emphasizes a closed...Read More

“Freespace” La Biennale di Venezia 16th International Architecture Exhibition

This past July, I spent three days exploring the Venice Biennale, or La Biennale Architettura as it is officially called. For nearly six months, 63 participating countries and over 70...Read More

Make New History: A Vertical City for the Innovation Economy

“Today, history represents neither an oppressive past that modernism tried to discard nor a retrograde mind-set against unbridled progress. Instead, at a time when there is too much information and...Read More

Empathy in the Built Environment

Architecture is often conveyed as a highly technical practice dealing with complex geometry and difficult calculations. However, relationship building – between site and context, architect and client, community and space...Read More

Light + Space: Irwin’s Portals of Perception

Dia:Beacon The early morning sky and the beat of the steel pull my gaze to the Hudson’s flat surface, the fawn landscape. It swishes by. I’m headed up to Beacon,...Read More

Marfa is a State of Mind

Having grown up the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains and having lived for a spell in Bolinas, I’ve always been drawn to weird far-flung places full of funky characters...Read More

Marfa is a State of Mind. Art Mecca Step 2: Imagine

Marfa’s big economies have been cattle ranching, war and art. Fort DA Russell’s closure after the Second World War, followed by a devastating drought in the 1950’s, took their toll...Read More

Marfa is a State of Mind. Art Mecca Step 3: Immerse

“It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and...Read More

Room for Thought: a Market Street Prototyping Festival installation

How do we create more opportunities for both playful interaction and quiet introspection, in an increasingly dense urban landscape? Room for Thought synthesized these two objectives in the form of...Read More

Timelessness, Beauty and Poetry in Planning

“The challenge—our challenge—is to produce for generations to come—not just for today or for fifty years hence—an efficient, flexible, and simple solution to the design of your Academy; and yet—and...Read More

WRNS Scholarship

In 2015, WRNS Studio started an annual scholarship program to encourage and promote inspiration and critical thinking in design and architecture. Scholarships vary widely and support things like individual projects,...Read More
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