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WITH ARCH OUT LOUD
arch out loud is an architectural research initiative dedicated to exploring the future of our built environment. Through printed research publications and international competitions, arch out loud maintains a platform through which professional architects, students, landscape architects, developers, engineers, artists and more test the limits of how we design, build, and think about our physical surroundings.

Hosting design competitions is arch out loud’s means of igniting conversation within the fields of development, design, and construction. Our IMPACT competitions focus on real world processes within the built environment. The goal of each competition is to influence successful future development on respective sites.
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Our current endeavors intend to explore ground breaking and innovative spaces, buildings, and construction techniques. In a time where an expanding number of residents desire to live in the urban core and within close proximity; technology, creative design solutions, and positive human spaces are more important than ever.
ESSAYS
INTERVIEWS
& WORKS
The out loud journal begins by situating readers within current conversations of how death informs our built environments. These conversations take on a wide range of approaches to the topic from the pragmatic to the phenomenologic.
PROJECT
​TRENDS
Looking at the entirety of competition results provides an understanding of the vast yet detailed range in which this topic can be addressed. Defining recurring trends clarifies specific mindsets or strategies architects engage when designing a place for the dead.
WINNERS &
​SELECTED PROPOSALS
Each issue of the out loud journal pairs with an open ideas competition theme, centered around specific social, political, and geographic issues. The journal features these competition project winners and notable entries as they examine the specific site and program of the Tokyo Vertical Cemetery Competition.
CONTRIBUTORS
Sir David Adjaye
Alison Killing
Karla Rothstein
Katrina Spade
Dr. John Troyer
Angela Reichers
Laura Ulloa
Caterina Vetrugo
Nicole Yang