Design Vanguard 2025: Almost Studio

Design Vanguard 2025: Almost Studio

Pinned to fiberboard walls are black-and-white photographs of such architectural curios as Frank Furness’s über-Victorian Provident Life & Trust Co. building, McKim, Mead & White’s…

Design Vanguard 2025: Sala Hars

Design Vanguard 2025: Sala Hars

The founders of Sala Hars like to joke that their base in Mexico City is a natural midpoint between their hometowns—though it is hardly convenient…

Thought Partner: AI and Design

Thought Partner: AI and Design

Jonah Hawk grew up surrounded by architects but never became one himself. Instead, his interest in technology steered him, in the early 1990s, to learn…

Design Vanguard 2025: Felipe Alarcón

Design Vanguard 2025: Felipe Alarcón

✕ In February 2010, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck barely 60 miles from the architect Felipe Alarcón’s childhood home in Linares, a small city in Chile’s…

Design Vanguard 2025: Ben Pennell

Design Vanguard 2025: Ben Pennell

✕ Ben Pennell is reaching for the future of architecture with dirt-caked hands. He has built and financed many of his projects, either alone or…

High Anxiety: Planning in Uncertain Times

High Anxiety: Planning in Uncertain Times

Entrepreneurial enterprises come with challenges. Architectural practices are no exception, with adversity likely to ramp up. What looked like a difficult 2025 in January has…