Editor's Picks #587
Back in August, Niall Patrick Walsh identified 9 lessons one can learn from recent NYIT student projects, About the Future of Architecture.
Plus, 25 Deans and Directors weighed in at the start of the 2026 school year. Their responses reference everything from AI and advanced fabrication to mass timber and community-based design.
NewsPerkins&Will make the case for solving Canada’s housing crisis with mass timber.
When Eamez used the opportunity to complain about Bauhaus and "social
block housing" Odd Architect countered with a close reading "Apparently
the material is simultaneously overused, underused, and evidence of
architectural corruption."
reallynotmyname took note of Herzog & de Meuron’s redesign of the L’Aria restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como in Blevio, Italy.
"A very different design language for HdeM. It's like they are channeling the style (opulent materials/vaguely traditional) of one of the fancy hospitality design firms. ...