What will our built environment look like?
As editors and curators of the largest architecture website in the world, our team is in a vantage position that allows us to be exposed firsthand to massive amounts of architectural insights from all over the world and enables us to imagine what the future of our cities might look like.
As our mission is to spread the best information to our readers, we bear the responsibility to keep an eye out for successes and innovations that would one day become benchmarks and tools for a better Urban and Living setting.
Part of our job is to deduce context-specific and recurring patterns that form what we might call trends; that we regularly showcase through our site in various formats.
Here are some indicators as to how to navigate Trends in ArchDaily.
Editor's Spotlight
By Hana Abdel Latif, Senior Projects Curator
As an avid architect and projects curator, I review and publish many built works and architectural case studies daily. This mass quantitative and qualitative exposure to diverse architecture and knowledge that myself and the rest of the content team experience, allows us to make some well-informed choices on the material we share and to identify amazing practices and riveting stories.
While we all work to have our accumulated experience reflected seamlessly on the site, we try to indicate the state of Architecture through our Monthly Topic pitches that you can check out on the ArchDaily Topics page; and in the end of the year/theme specific roundups which can easily be identifiable through their tags and titles.
This advantageous overview is also important to us as it leads us in selecting each year’s New Practices, since we notice that they are responding to current and future demands.
While the trends, span through different article types, we’ve placed the spotlight on some themes that were our focus for 2023 and the coming months:
• Developments of Cities and Urban Growth. Check out our discussions at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023, in Copenhagen.
• Sustainability and Climate Responsibility. Next month bears special coverage on Decarbonizing Architecture on ArchDaily!
• Future Materials, specifically Wood was explored in The Future of Wood in Architecture during September.
• New Narratives and social shifts are emerging as the ones shared through our Venice Biennale articles/interviews.
• Built Architecture Trends Roundups developed by our projects team.
• End-of-the-year listings and our Social media selection, which reflects what our readers seek and the most memorable stories!
As a final note, a topic’s popularity is not enough for us to distinguish it as a trend as we look deeper into its actual and future relevance, effectiveness and positive impact. As ArchDaily team members, we strive to find good ideas, wherever they may be!
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