Press and Media
Stefan Al regularly provides expert commentary on architecture, urbanism, and sustainable cities for major media outlets. For speaking or media inquiries, contact info@stefanal.com
Television
CNN
CNN's Next Frontier interviewed Stefan Al to discuss more sustainable skyscrapers.
Science Channel
Stefan Al was interviewed in a helicopter flight over Manhattan, commenting on the engineering challenges of supertall buildings.
CGTN
CGTN interviewed Stefan Al on the challenges of rapid urbanization in China, which has added over half a billion people to its cities in forty years.
Podcasts
NPR Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal interviewed Stefan Al on Marketplace about sustainable cities and skyscrapers.
Slate Money
Slate Money talks with author and architect Stefan Al on his new book about skyscrapers. They talk about the human desire to build tall buildings (and the backlash to them), why parts of New York don’t work, but Hong Kong does, and why people keep paying premiums for apartments that sway.
NPR Marketplace
What are the changing trends in hospitality and vacationing in America? Kai Ryssdal interviewed Stefan Al on Marketplace about his book The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream.
Referenced in
Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper
The New York Times
Book Review: Stefan Al’s Thoroughly Excellent ‘Supertall’
Forbes Magazine
‘Supertall’ Review: Kissing the Clouds
The Wall Street Journal
"Ancient cooling techniques" allow 3D-printed partitions to regulate temperature
Dezeen
Stefan Al Architects Design Mass Timber Residential Building For A Postcovid World
Design Nuance
How Supertall Buildings Lift Us Higher
Engineering News-Record
‘Supertall’ Book Review
Kirkus Reviews
How engineers enabled buildings to colonize the clouds
Japan News
5 Questions with Stefan Al, Architect, Urban Designer, and Educator
Central Park Conservancy
In Hamburg, Climate Change Means Living With Water
Bloomberg News, CityLab + Green
First Principles for Sustainable and Equitable Transportation: A Review of Beyond Mobility
Resilience
Book Review: Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Spacing
The Architecture of the American Dream
The Wall Street Journal
Informal Urbanism
Architectural Record
The history of the Las Vegas Strip is the history of how we vacation
NPR Marketplace
10 Must-Read Design Books To Get You Ready For 2018
Co Design
Redesigning Las Vegas: Entertainment Architecture for the Experience Economy
Archinect
The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Publishers Weekly
Factory Towns of South China
Architectural Record
Learning from Las Vegas: What the Strip can teach us about urban planning
The Guardian
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