Metropolis Magazine - October 2017

In this issue

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.

A Floor's Best Friend

A new coating by Armstrong Flooring harnesses the power of diamonds for added protection and beauty.

1 min

Development On Higher Ground

Nearly a decade after severe flooding inundated the University of Iowa’s campus, its music department is reunited in a new building by LMN Architects that is both a technological and civic asset.

3 mins

Adam Nathaniel Furman

Relying on his own imagination rather than trends for inspiration, Adam Nathaniel Furman— a master of surface and ornamentation—designs exuberant works at all manner of scales.

3 mins

Lukas Peet

With an approach that synthesizes pragmatism and whimsy, Lukas Peet’s designs reconsider the complexities of lighting and how it fills a space.

3 mins

Float Studio

Adeptly avoiding the clichés so commonly associated with office design for start-ups, Float Studio instead creates spaces that capture each company’s founding essence—all on a tight budget.

3 mins

New Talent Orkidstudio

For these architects, the best way to achieve social change is through the process of building.

3 mins

New Talent Studio Gorm

An appreciation of the beauty in an object’s true function drives the work of Studio Gorm.

3 mins

T Is For Talent

Metropolis showcased four emerging talents in a vibrant installation at NeoCon 2017.

2 mins

Is Fashion Modern?

On the eve of the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition on the past, present, and future of fashion, Metropolis VP of design Paul Makovsky spoke to MoMA’s senior curator Paola Antonelli about why she chose to put on a show about garments, why Bernard Rudofsky (who curated MoMA’s first show on fashion back in 1944) remains as relevant as ever, and the challenges of selecting fashion objects that have had a strong impact on the world.

6 mins

Spiraling Summit

Frank Lloyd Wright’s single New York City public building is not a swaggering, self-glorifying monument but rather a kind of Rosetta stone to interpret a lifetime of ideas, argues a new book.

5 mins

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