Articles by Alice Bucknell

Remember nightclubs? That mask-less, gloveless world where you’d melt into a gyrating, strobe-tinged crowd of hundreds while losing yourself to the ecstatic soul-shuddering beat of electronic dance music (EDM)? Nightclubs and their requisite soundscapes may feel like a distant and potentially panic-inducing memory today, but they have long served as vital spaces of innovation and countercultural resistance. In their fusion of creative cultures, technological innovation, and political protest, clubs are spaces where utopian dreams are born and come to life—at least for the night.

This article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine as “Architecture You Can Smell? A Brief History of Multisensory Design.”

This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as “The Designers Who Made Disco.”

This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as “Inside the Design of Norway’s Most Controversial Building.”