August 2026: Anti-Fascist Architecture, Dallas, Design Workshops, and Calder Gardens
Plus, I was interviewed on the Chicago Design Club podcast!
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James Dyer and Nick Deakin on Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops
The edited collection is “not a book of fixed methods but prompts to embrace an endlessly shifting terrain.”
Another Architecture is Probable
An except from a new book by Daniel Jonas Roche and Andrew Santa Lucia on antifascist architecture.
Mark Lamster on what Dallas can teach us about the American City
The Pulitzer-winning Dallas Morning News architecture critic thinks Dallas hold lessons for all of us.
July 2026: The Power of Print
Plus a special roundup of architectural reviews of the Obama Presidential Center
How Books Built Bjarke’s Brand
On the occasion of the Danish architecture firm BIG's new monograph, a look back on their previous books and the brand they cultivated.
How Robin Sloan is using printing to critique this current tech moment
The novelist and “creative industrialist” on manufacturing, AI, and how he's using printing to show another way forward.
June 2026: Data Viz Month!
We hosted a series of conversation about the politics of information design, the history of the diagram, and data humanism.
Giorgia Lupi wants more people to speak data
The Pentagram partner and information designer on the evolution of how we talk about data and how COVID-19 changed how she thought about her work.
Discussing OMA’s Diagrams with Fondazione Prada’s Mario Mainetti
In the first issue of our new books newsletter, a conversation about turning the exhibition into a book, working with Irma Boom, and architects who edit.