Profile / VisitMelissa Shelton Builds Hospitality From Houses With Memory
Dear Valentine’s growing collection of New Orleans guesthouses treats preservation, local craft and residential ease as one hospitality model.
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The New Practice
Artists and studios building the next language of contemporary creative culture.
10 stories in the seriesThe New Practice introduces studios whose work expands the assumptions of their field. Context, identity, responsibility and experimentation become practical tools for making a different kind of future.
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Profile / VisitThree Women Expanding What Design Leadership Can Do
At Maison&Objet, Emily Wheeler, Tola Ojuolape and Reem Al-Sultan connect interiors to care, cultural memory and more inclusive creative systems.
Profile / VisitFive Women Show How Architectural Practice Is Changing
The 2026 Women in Architecture honorees connect place-based design, biogenic materials, landscape performance, firm leadership and public advocacy.
Profile / VisitLocal Local Lets an Athens Townhouse Become Light
The young Athens studio restores a nineteenth-century home in Plaka through pale surfaces, terrazzo and a disciplined attention to context.
Profile / VisitDeRoche Projects Treats the Mountainside as a Collaborator
A young Accra studio uses pavilions, Ghanaian craft and lower-carbon concrete to build with a forested site above the Akwapim Ridge.
Profile / VisitMariam Issoufou Designs Architecture From the Story of Place
At atelier masōmī, local materials, climate and collective memory become the foundation for contemporary civic architecture.
Profile / VisitNina Cooke John Makes Public Memory a Place to Enter
From homes to the Harriet Tubman monument in Newark, Studio Cooke John works at the scale where bodies, streets and shared history meet.
Profile / VisitTosin Oshinowo Connects Modern Architecture to Lagos
Residential, civic and humanitarian work reveal a practice in which cultural identity and social responsibility are forms of design intelligence.
Profile / VisitSuchi Reddy Asks What Design Makes the Body Feel
Reddymade brings neuroaesthetics into architecture, public art and retail through a human-centered philosophy: form follows feeling.
Profile / VisitLani Adeoye Reframes Heritage Through Contemporary Objects
Studio-Lani brings craft, cultural memory and inclusive function together across furniture, lighting, sculpture and assistance devices.
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