Archive · May 2026
Artemis II Is Home. The Architecture of What Comes Next Is the Hard Part.
Artemis II returned four astronauts safely on April 10, 2026. Here's what the programme's harder next phase means for European engineers and architects.
13 500 m² of Programmed Ambiguity: What Babel Community Teaches Us About Coliving at Scale
D'HOUNDT+BAJART's 13 524 m² Babel Community in Villeneuve-d'Ascq exposes the regulatory gap every European architect designing coliving must solve now.
Seven Unbuilt Houses, One Dependency Graph: When the Section Outranks the Render
Lin Rauch on ArchDaily's seven unbuilt houses: one shared move — design the house as a section through its ground. Plus an earth-coupling Hack.
F1's 2026 Hybrid Crisis Is a Control-System Governance Problem — and AEC Has the Same One Coming
F1's 2026 ECU controls power without driver input. PAZ maps the same governance gap in building automation specs — and how to close it before go-live.
24 units, 2632 m²: What Igualada's affordable housing really says about Europe's housing crisis
4RQ and MBM Arquitectes build 24 affordable units in Igualada. What DACH architects can learn from this typology for their competitions.
openBIM Grows a Backbone: Porto's Hackathon, Zurich's Governance, ISO's Compatibility Rules
Porto's openBIM hackathon, Zurich's governance push, and ISO's new IFC compatibility policy — three signals that turn openBIM into infrastructure.
Nonhyun 169: What a 520 m² Seoul Corner Teaches AEC About the Constraint-as-Generator System
See Architects' 520 m² Seoul corner building is a systems lesson in how FAR limits and height caps can drive — not block — architectural logic.
The Embarcadero Freeway Died So Your City's Next Viaduct Doesn't Have To
San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway reveals a system boundary failure still relevant to European urban infrastructure decisions in 2026. PAZ Academy analysis.
Artemis II Is Home: What the 14-Minute Reentry Reveals About Accepting Known Risk
Orion Integrity is home. The real story is NASA's pre-authorized helium leak — a documented risk-acceptance decision every AEC team should study.
Princess Farm, Sintra: What Heritage Reuse Teaches the Drawing Board Today
What the 1,900-m² project by António Costa Lima Arquitectos teaches about Heritage BIM, Scan-to-BIM, and interdisciplinary heritage engineering.