Traveling to Miami soon, but not sure what's really worth exploring? Today's Archinect City Guide is hosted by Germane Barnes, award-winning founder of research and design practice Studio Barnes. Besides receiving Harvard GSD's 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a 2021-22 Rome Prize, a 2022 USA Fellowship, the 2022 Miami Design District Annual Neighborhood Commission, and more recently, Exhibit Columbus' Miller Prize, he is a member of the Black Reconstruction Collective, as well as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Master of Architecture Graduate Program at the University of Miami School of Architecture. In this City Guide, Barnes reveals his favorite Miami spots for dining, relaxing, and discovering new design and architecture.  Are you a Miami local with your own go-to spots? Or have a city you think we should cover next? Share your thoughts, suggestions, and favorite places in the comments.

When it comes to architecture-focused creators on YouTube, Stewart Hicks' channel is definitely one worth liking and subscribing to. By day, an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Architecture, as well as Founding Partner of the practice Design With Company, Hicks has mastered the art of presenting complex topics in long-form videos that are both entertaining and educational (and addictive, we might add). In today's Archinect Meets, Stewart Hicks shares what inspired him to create videos, the criteria that determine new story topics, and what the community aspect of his 600,000+ YouTube subscribers means to him.

Archinect City Guide returns with an architect's perspective of Chicago! Our guide this time is Ann Lui, Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan's Taubman College and one of the two founding principals (with Craig Reschke) of the architecture and design research office Future Firm based in the Windy City. Lui was a co-curator of the 'Dimensions of Citizenship' 2018 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and Archinectors may also remember our Next Up: Exhibit Columbus podcast interview and the Studio Snapshot special with Future Firm. For our City Guide, Lui shares her insider tips on which Chi-Town eateries, bars, cafés, bookstores, and museums might be especially interesting for architects and designers visiting the city.  Are you a Chicago local with your own go-to spots? Or have a city you think we should cover next? Share your thoughts, suggestions, and favorite places in the comments.

In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with James Leng and Jennifer Ly, founding partners of Figure. While formally based in San Francisco, the studio enjoys great structural liberty by working mostly remotely — a strategy reflected in the geographic variety of the young firm's work.  Both partners bring a highly impressive portfolio of academic accolades to their practice, including the Burnham Prize, SOM Foundation Research Prize, Vilcek Prize, Rotch Travelling Scholarship, James Templeton Kelley Prize, Harvard’s Department of Architecture Faculty Design Award, and the Harry der Boghosian Teaching Fellowship (avid Archinect readers will remember our Fellow Fellows feature interview with James Leng on the outcome of his fellowship at Syracuse). Our conversation touches on the question of becoming a specialist vs. a jack of all typologies, how high costs affect the way they build, and what they value in new hires. (Figure is currently hiring a Job Captai...

Archinect is very excited to reintroduce Archinect Meets, our popular series of conversations with social media's leading architecture-focused tastemakers, curators, creatives, and influencers. — What inspires them? How do they choose their topics? Is social media shaping their view of architecture? — We'll cover these and many more questions in our lineup of must-know interview guests. In today's episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with Nino Ferrari-Mathis, better known as the host and creative mind behind his wildly popular Instagram account @ninosbuildings. For nearly 100 posts, he's allowed us fascinating access to stunning buildings around the world, taking us on entertaining video tours inside — and chatting with the architects of — some of our favorite designs.