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Architecture and Design Longreads

You might have come to know and love Dwell through the stunning modern homes featured throughout the magazine's 12-year history but interspersed between the interiors stories and idea books are informative pieces on design history and critical pieces on contemporary issues. Take a deeper dive into modernism in via this collection of essays.

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First Unitarian Church by Louis I. Khan in Rochester, New York. Image courtesy the Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
First Unitarian Church by Louis I. Khan in Rochester, New York. Image courtesy the Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
The Micro Compact Home was one of five prefabs constructed in an empty lot adjacent to MoMA.
The Micro Compact Home was one of five prefabs constructed in an empty lot adjacent to MoMA.
The impending demolition of Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule Tower strikes a nostalgic nerve in writer Tom Vanderbilt, who travels to Tokyo for a look at a future that never was. Illustration by: Nigel Peake
The impending demolition of Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule Tower strikes a nostalgic nerve in writer Tom Vanderbilt, who travels to Tokyo for a look at a future that never was. Illustration by: Nigel Peake
As the war-torn city of Kabul, Afghanistan, is transformed into a maze of blast walls, military checkpoints, and foreign bases, Charles Montgomery asks: How might security architecture be changed to foster psychological stability? Illustration by: Amze Emmons
As the war-torn city of Kabul, Afghanistan, is transformed into a maze of blast walls, military checkpoints, and foreign bases, Charles Montgomery asks: How might security architecture be changed to foster psychological stability? Illustration by: Amze Emmons
Dawson shifted some production to readymade, and now the factory builds the raw bodies of more than 30 popular models in advance.
Dawson shifted some production to readymade, and now the factory builds the raw bodies of more than 30 popular models in advance.
Many architects and designers, when talked down from the theoretical towers of “sculptural forms” and “floating volumes” and made to speak of their craft in humbler terms, are apt to use a phrase as naive as it is loaded: “good design.” Former Dwell editor Aaron Britt asks: What do we talk about when we talk "good design"?
Many architects and designers, when talked down from the theoretical towers of “sculptural forms” and “floating volumes” and made to speak of their craft in humbler terms, are apt to use a phrase as naive as it is loaded: “good design.” Former Dwell editor Aaron Britt asks: What do we talk about when we talk "good design"?