Smarter factories.  Independent architecture and design firms are tackling issues neglected by the mainstream institutions. 25 must-read design books for Spring.   Focus on Lighting Products.

The Bauhaus turns 100.  The work of DAAD.  Motherhood and design intersect in new ways.

Healthcare and Hospitality issue.  Healthcare start-up architecture.  High-Design health care.  Guest editors AvroKO show the extensive reach of hospitality across design typologies. 

Focus on the vast and evolving industry of textiles, including:
the pioneering biodesign research of Carole Collet, whose speculative and applied projects point towards a more sustainable future;  a step behind the curtain of Wolf-Gordon with Marybeth Shaw, whose support for emerging talent keeps the company on the cutting edge of contract textiles;  and boundary-pushing techniques of five artists whose work runs the gamut from glitchy jacquard weavings to architectural-scale quilts.  Also:  WorkAC creates a new gateway to the Rhode Island School of Design campus; and a preview of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, exploring the five main themes of the exhibits.


World Design Cities: ten cities on five continents. The Wing: creating coworking spaces for and by women. Just City Lab. 

Step into four spaces that illustrate why the modern office remains a fertile territory for designers. Included in this coverage:
• Studio O+A crafts the ultimate workplace for Slack by channeling life on the Pacific Crest Trail.
• Olson Kundig’s renovated Seattle outpost balances history with experimentation.
• 3XN’s new headquarters for the International Olympic committee aims to unite and revitalize the organization.
• The University of Miami School of Architecture’s new anchor, designed by Arquitectonica, offers teachable moments in roughly textured concrete.

Special Landscape Section: Four recent projects that deploy landscape as a tool to remedy underlying, long-entrenched urban problems.  And revisiting Ian McHarg’s influential book Design with Nature 50 years on.


NYCxDesign 2019 preview.  Climate Change Initiatives for 2030.  Singapore's Changi Airport.  Architectural partners.

Lighting issue.  Also: Hospitality Design - adoptive reuse has turned hotels and restaurants into architectural time capsules.

North American Design: five up-and-coming makers whose textiles, lighting and furniture are advancing a conversation with tradition.

Game Changers issue, featuring firms and designers who are advancing design and its practice. Hudson Yards in NYC: a high-tech, futuristic neighborhood. WeWork.

2018 Year in Review: Eight Metropolis contributors address how events of the last year have prompted designers to confront their field. Profile of architect Steven Holl. The year in exhibitions.  Sustainability Report Supplement.

Designing with nature.  Special section: Design for Aging - the growing 60-and-over population presents both an opportunity and a challenge for designers.

Annual Textiles issue.  Includes Fall 2018 edition of Metropolis Living, which examines how high-rise, multifamily living is taking shape in mixed-use developments across the country.

Annual New Talent survey.  World's Best Design Cities. Metropolis Likes at NeoCon.

Unconventional workplaces.  Architecture in Yugoslavia.  New at NeoCon 50.

Surveying L.A. Pomo: revisiting the city's underapreciated architecture. NYCxDESIGN 2018: a guide to this year's programs and design fairs. Venice Architecture Biennale. Spanish Designers. Wolf Gordon's new upholstery collection.

Focus on Lighting:  Suzan Tillotson; Acoustic Lighting; subdued outdoor lighting.  Plus: Metropolis Living supplement. And Tech Interiors: Studio O+A's utopian vision of a workplace in 2068.

North American Design Today, in the Pacific Northwest, Minnesota and North Carolina.  Haworth's refurbished headquarters. Spanish architect Andre Jaque.

John Portman: Atlanta's Architect. Everlane's new Soho flagship. Cassina headquarters redesign. The Public Hotel in NYC.   The Msheireb Museums in Qatar.

Game Changers 2018: Carol Ross Barney; Dan Chong; Kenneth Frampton; Anna Puigjaner; Doreen Toutikian. CES Tech show: AI ear pods to multisensory virtual reality cabins.  Microsoft's makeover.

The Year in Review: Furniture, Hurricanes, Health, Cabins, Startups, Books; and the contributions of Florence Knoll to architecture and design, on the centenary of her birth.

New Talent: Five Design Innovators to watch.  Alexander Girard's unseen photography. MoMA's senior curator Paola Antonelli on the museum's landmark exhibition on fashion.

Special Textiles Issue. The Chicago Architecture Biennial.  Community Colleges. Sina Pearson and Momentum Group.

Special section celebrating the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's birth.  Also: the World's Best Design Cities: urban centers where architecture and design are flourishing.

The future of work.  Workplace research: how identity and technology will shape the workplaces of tomorrow. New models for furniture manufacturing. 

NYCxDESIGN: Metropolis's curated list of the best products and installations during  New York's three-week-long celebration of design. Architect Rene Gonzalez.  Femaile alums from NASA.

 Special Makers issue. Architecture goes post-digital;  drawing a design concept with pencil and paper has returned.  Manufacturing in Shenzhen, China.  The Future of Making: digital technology and craft.

Hospitality's New Wave: five emerging studios reshaping the hospitality industry.  Canada's new National Music Centre in Calgary.  High Meadow Residences at Fallingwater.  Finn Juhl.

Game Changers 2017: Today's Leaders in Design: WORKac; Architecture Lobby; Jerry Helling; ReUrbano; Ralph Knowles.

2016 Year in Review. Gift Guide of Good Design.  Taipei as World Design Capital.

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