The Quiet Revolution in How We Build
No announcement, no launch, no conference keynote. Over a decade, the way a building comes into existence has been remade by people who were mostly trying to avoid a lawsuit.
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Autumn 2026 · Published 3 September 2026
The changes that matter most are rarely announced. Our autumn issue follows transformations that happened while nobody was watching — in construction, in culture, in the streets we walk every day.
Reporting, interviews and visual essays from across the current and recent editions.
No announcement, no launch, no conference keynote. Over a decade, the way a building comes into existence has been remade by people who were mostly trying to avoid a lawsuit.
Tomás Berger on the workshops, clinics and small manufacturers quietly reoccupying the shopfronts that national chains abandoned.
Kenji Arai walks two hundred kilometres of a restored path and finds a route that no longer fits the country it crosses.
Tomás Berger examines the proximity planning movement, and the affordability problem sitting underneath every version of it.
Daniel Reiss on latency, restraint and the engineers arguing that the next advance in automation is knowing when to hold.
Ten desks, each with its own standards and its own long-running preoccupations.
The cover story of Issue 03. Priya Raman spends four months inside a construction industry that changed completely while insisting nothing had happened.
Marcus Adeyemi sits down with an architect whose most influential decisions are, by her own account, the buildings she declined to make.
Tomás Berger on the workshops, clinics and small manufacturers quietly reoccupying the shopfronts that national chains abandoned.
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