Collaborations

Places acts as a dynamic and unusual nexus of collaboration, fostering an open exchange of ideas across disciplines and among institutions. Existing collaborations have taken the form of essays, interviews, lectures, books, and events; all are dedicated to creating more opportunities for writers and public scholars to think critically and boldly about the built environment.

We’re always looking to launch new Collaborations. If your institution is interested in developing a project in partnership with Places, please contact us.

PORCH: A Library

The U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale

A collection of books, curated by Places, on the theme of the 2025 U.S. Pavilion exhibition: the American porch.

Arcus | Places Prize

College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley

A prize supporting public scholarship on gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

Princeton | Places Prize

Urban Imagination Center at Princeton School of Architecture

An opportunity for scholars to develop a longform work of public scholarship broadly focused on cities and communities.

SAH | Places | Graham Foundation Prize

Society of Architectural Historians & Graham Foundation

Longform works of public scholarship considering historical and contemporary intersections between race and the built environment.

Writing the City

Columbia Journalism School

A prize giving early-career journalists an opportunity to produce ambitious works of longform urban journalism on topics that might otherwise receive scant attention

Photograph of a rural, two-lane highway in New Mexico. The landscape is flat with golden desert grasses with light blue mountains in the distance on the horizon. The sky takes up half of the image at the top is blue with a speckling of white clouds. The road is empty of vehicles and cuts through the center of the image at an angle. A short wire and wood post fence lines the side of the road on the land. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Highway, NM."

On the Brinck | Places Prize

University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning

Public scholarship on the American Southwest, in the spirit of landscape writer and critic John Brinckerhoff Jackson.

View of New York City

Oregon | Places Prize

College of Design at University of Oregon

Public scholarship about power and place, and the relationship of the design disciplines to larger structures of equity and justice.

Despina Stratigakos on Zoom.

Voices from Places Journal

SCI-Arc Channel

A series of interviews with Places authors discussing their ongoing research and projects.

Places Books

Princeton University Press

Select Places authors expand their journal essays into compact, accessible volumes, bridging academic discourse and mainstream media.