The Quiet Revolution in How We Build
No announcement, no launch, no conference keynote. Over a decade, the way a building comes into existence has been remade by people who were mostly trying to avoid a lawsuit.
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The cover story of Issue 03. Priya Raman spends four months inside a construction industry that changed completely while insisting nothing had happened.
Marcus Adeyemi sits down with an architect whose most influential decisions are, by her own account, the buildings she declined to make.
Tomás Berger on the workshops, clinics and small manufacturers quietly reoccupying the shopfronts that national chains abandoned.
Leila Nasser on the artists, labels and publishers building for an audience that has to be found rather than served.
Kenji Arai walks two hundred kilometres of a restored path and finds a route that no longer fits the country it crosses.
Eleanor Vance on the difficult discipline of telling an organisation the truth about what you do not know.
Daniel Reiss on interface conventions in flux, and why the ones that survive are always the ones nobody notices.
Sofia Marchetti eats at a restaurant built around a single decision, and finds an argument about hospitality hiding inside it.
Tomás Berger examines the proximity planning movement, and the affordability problem sitting underneath every version of it.
Kenji Arai on the road, rail and river connections that decide whether a harbour is a gateway or a cul-de-sac.
Daniel Reiss on latency, restraint and the engineers arguing that the next advance in automation is knowing when to hold.
Marcus Adeyemi meets a glassmaker who can describe almost nothing about what he does — and can do all of it without looking.
Tomás Berger on an urban transformation achieved not by a grand plan but by a long series of unremarkable decisions.
Amara Okonjo on investing through a regime change — and the managers rebuilding their process from first principles.
Hannah Lindqvist on shooting in forty minutes of usable light a day, and what constraint does to a photographer's eye.
Leila Nasser on the small commercial spaces quietly performing the functions that civic buildings used to.
Priya Raman on transmission, storage and the deeply unglamorous bottleneck between a working technology and a working system.
Daniel Reiss on the return of materials science — and the brutal timelines that make it so different from anything software has taught us.
Infrastructure is the only thing we build on a timescale longer than a career. Priya Raman on the engineers arguing for a return to the very long view.
Repair was supposed to be a moral argument. It is turning into a commercial one. Amara Okonjo on the margin hiding inside the second life of a product.
Leila Nasser spends a day in a converted tannery with a painter who measures progress in years and refuses to photograph work in progress.
Kenji Arai reports from a harbour that lost its industry and is now negotiating, street by street, what should take its place.
Eleanor Vance on why the most common succession failure is not choosing the wrong person, but choosing the right person too late.
Sofia Marchetti on the quiet revival of cooking that requires planning — and what it says about the hours we are willing to give back.
Ten desks, each with its own preoccupations and its own standards.
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