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  Luxury: Evaluating Values

  Luxury, a term that once conjured images from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, is now just as often used to aggrandize personal organizers, iPod cases, and websites. So we turned to Augustin…

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  Driving: Joy Ride

  San Francisco–based design team Mike and Maaike wave goodbye to the driver's seat with their concept car, the ATNMBL (the "autonomobile"). Consider it a high-tech living room on…

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  Play: Electric Slide

  A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy.

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  Joel Turkel on the Future of Prefab

  The future of prefab is an increasingly nonarchitectural problem.

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  Kathryn Gustafson on the Future of Landscape Design

  As housing demographics shift, 
so too does our conception of the average American residential landscape.

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  Judy Kameon on the Future of Landscape Design

  There’s a common misconception that the scale of domestic projects places them in the realm of “garden designers” rather than landscape architects, but size is not always the…

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  Johnny Grey on Kitchens of the Future

  The nephew of food guru Elizabeth David, Grey found validation for his design approach in the field of neuroscience.

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  Daniel Patterson on Kitchens of the Future

  According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look back to the future.

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  Cardenio Petrucci on Kitchens of the Future

  Cardenio Petrucci has seen the kitchen assume increasing prominence, to the point where it’s akin to a piece of fine furniture.

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  Christine Rosen on Kitchens of the Future

  “Looking at the data, we will continue to eat more convenience foods and to gather less as a family, just as our kitchens become ever more ‘gourmet’ and ‘professional.’