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A group of people walk and gather in a grassy urban park with stone paths, featured on the cover of AZURE magazine promoting the AZ Awards 2026.
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Summer 2026

A group of people walk and gather in a grassy urban park with stone paths, featured on the cover of AZURE magazine promoting the AZ Awards 2026.
#316
Summer 2026

The June/July/August 2026 edition of AZURE is dedicated to our 16th annual AZ Awards — and also features the best of Milan, the New Museum’s expansion, the latest in building envelope systems and more!

The AZ Awards issue packs much more than our winners and finalists — though they certainly take pride of place. (And you can read all about them on our dedicated AZ Awards site.)

Watching
Rossana Hu: Alfred Hitchcock is really interesting for the way he moves through his lenses, the layers he adds. The voyeuristic images he includes in many of his films have been quite influential for us.

Reading
Lyndon Neri: I’ve been fascinated by On Photography, by Susan Sontag. It talks about how photography as a medium is quite invasive. It’s almost a licence for people to ask you to pose, but try it without a camera and everyone’s going to look at you funny.

Downloading
RH: I had my phase with social media, including the WeChat app, or 菓斤. It inundates you with short excerpts of news and literature, images and so on. I enjoy reading them, but once in a while you realize it’s such piecemeal information, you can get lost in it.

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