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03/20/2026

Volume 14 Issue 2: Architecture without Buildings

“If there is architecture without architects; what could architecture without buildings look like?”

Issue edited by Olga Kedya & Tony Salem Musleh
Graphic design by Xiwen Zhang & Ellen Fabini

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03/02/2026

Volume 14 Issue 1: To Stream is to Touch at a Distance.

“When we want nothing more than to hold you close, we’ll stream until the day we meet again.

When our schedules keep us from loved ones, when our relationship to the land we call home grows estranged, when it feels like “real life” is somewhere else—how may we love at a distance? Our answer is subtle: maybe To Stream is to Touch at a Distance.”

Brought to you by Issue Editors .miglani, .selli, and Stone Stewart, in collaborations with Graphic Designer

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02/18/2026

Paprika! World Building! Call for Submissions!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Architects are inherent world builders. In our concrete castle we methodically conjure visions, drawings, and narratives of a piece of the world that does not yet exist. We imagine the nonexistent. We materialize the intangible. We smith a new story each day. As designers, we each envision a unique world, one that is grounded in our own adventures, ideals, and aspirations. Storytelling is embedded in everything we do; it is when we embrace the power of otherworldliness and mysticness we innovate and inspire the most.
In this edition of Paprika, we invite all storytellers to share a glimpse of your most fantastical of worlds— from short stories full of mystical creatures, spectacular sci-fi screenplays, dimension-defying costume designs, heroic character studies, to any legends, lore, and media you can imagine — we invite you to tell us a story. What tales do you have to tell?
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Email your abstracts to [email protected] by Sunday February 22nd at midnight. Please indicate your estimated word count and format of your piece if possible, as it helps us plan the issue.

Looking forward to reading your magical submissions!

.lundergan

02/08/2026

[updated end dates!]
Hey HOTT!ES,

Feeling a little distant from your fling :3, friend :-D, or foe 3:-D? Well, Valentine’s Day is coming up and the Paprika Cup!ds have you covered!

𝗨𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and completely anonymous, you can be silly, sexy, or sweet! Write love letters on a pair of pretty notes and have them delivered with Kisses.

All you need to do is order a Valent!ne‘s Letter packet from QR code below:
Write, seal, and drop off letters in the Mailbox (p2) by Mr. Will’s desk. (Make sure the recipient‘s name is legible!)
Sit back and see your card delivered, while having some delivered to you too!

And with all this cuteness, you help the student-run publication. Big smooches for you!

xoxo
Paprika!

02/08/2026

Hey HOTT!ES,

Feeling a little distant from your fling :3, friend :-D, or foe 3:-D? Well, Valentine’s Day is coming up and the Paprika Cup!ds have you covered!

Unrelated to a publication and completely anonymous, you can be silly, sexy, or sweet! Write love letters on a pair of pretty notes and have them delivered with Kisses.

All you need to do is order a Valent!ne‘s Letter packet from QR code below:
Write, seal, and drop off letters in the Mailbox (p2) by Mr. Will’s desk. (Make sure the recipient‘s name is legible!)
Sit back and see your card delivered, while having some delivered to you too!

And with all this cuteness, you help the student-run publication. Big smooches for you!

xoxo
Paprika!

02/02/2026

!!!!!!! A building comes crashing down when gravity pulls it from stasis, Rhino crashes when memory overloads, humans crash when they reach their emotional or physical limits. Crashes are trans-scalar and always happening. To crash is to suddenly reconcile with an opposing condition. Forces reach an inflection point, a pause, that can travel in any possible direction. A crash out is cathartic.
The post-war diplomatic rule is contending with its erosion, leading to both a doubling down of imperialist drives and the design of alternative futures. The economy moves in booms and busts, and architecture as an industry is perhaps most sensitive to these cycles. Models of practice evolve dialectically in relation to financial flows. The worker physiologically inherits these external factors: overworking combined with precarity leads to crashing out, and with it the reimagining of labor and the self.
This issue invites meditations on how crashes register in the built environment and in the lives of those who produce it. We ask how collapse might be productive, how exhaustion may generate knowledge, and how rupture could become a condition for change. What new practices, solidarities, or imaginaries emerge in the aftermath? How do crashes, breakdowns, and moments of disintegration materialize spatially, socially, and politically? When does crashing out become a refusal, a reset, or a strategy, and for whom? Consider this issue a site for fragments, interruptions, and unfinished thoughts. What breaks when systems fail, and what becomes possible (or impossible) in the process? How do you crash out?
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*Cole*Eli*Ethan*
* email submissions to [email protected]
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* !!Graphic Designers!!

01/21/2026

*Paprika! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*: Architecture without Buildings

Architecture is increasingly practiced under conditions in which building is neither its primary activity nor its most consequential outcome. Now more than ever, commodified development has exhausted architecture’s role as a speculative driver, while ecological limits demand restraint rather than expansion. Yet architectural education and professional self-understanding continue to measure relevance through the production of buildings, maintaining methods and values shaped for a world that no longer exists. This misalignment risks rendering architecture irrelevant, not because it lacks capacity, but because it fails to recognize where its work already takes place.
If there is architecture without architects; what could architecture without buildings look like?

Deadline: January 25th, 2026, midnight

Issue Editors - Olga Kedya Tony Musleh

01/17/2026

I’m sorry I couldn’t visit you last week, I had another big push for studio. Also this week is really busy too. We can facetime though if you’re free?

There’s a particular intimacy that forms when two people are not able to touch. When two worlds are connected by nothing except a thread of audio, video, or text. Existing almost solely in Rudolph Hall, we yearn to feel the human touch and presence of another human being in real time.

To stream is to touch at a distance.

Real time streaming, in its various forms, allows us to feel the most intimate parts of one another, and fulfills a part of ourselves that yearns for connection. Streaming connects us to a different world, another person with a place they inhabit. The space we inhabit now includes a part of theirs.

We invite you to analyze, describe, map, critique, theorize, speculate, and dream about those spaces and the intimacy we yearn for. We ask you to look deeper into the many modes of streaming and how they connect you to time, spaces, events, and loved ones outside of your currently lived moments.

Email your abstracts to [email protected] by Friday January 23rd at midnight. Please indicate your estimated word count and format of your piece if possible, as it helps us plan the issue.

Issue Editors - .ambu._ .jp .selli
Graphic Design -

01/17/2026

I’m sorry I couldn’t visit you last week, I had another big push for studio. Also this week is really busy too. We can facetime though if you’re free?

There’s a particular intimacy that forms when two people are not able to touch. When two worlds are connected by nothing except a thread of audio, video, or text. Existing almost solely in Rudolph Hall, we yearn to feel the human touch and presence of another human being in real time.

To stream is to touch at a distance.

Real time streaming, in its various forms, allows us to feel the most intimate parts of one another, and fulfills a part of ourselves that yearns for connection. Streaming connects us to a different world, another person with a place they inhabit. The space we inhabit now includes a part of theirs.

We invite you to analyze, describe, map, critique, theorize, speculate, and dream about those spaces and the intimacy we yearn for. We ask you to look deeper into the many modes of streaming and how they connect you to time, spaces, events, and loved ones outside of your currently lived moments.

Email your abstracts to [email protected] by Friday January 23rd at midnight. Please indicate your estimated word count and format of your piece if possible, as it helps us plan the issue.

Issue Editors - .ambu._ .jp and .selli
Graphic Design -

11/28/2025

Remembering Robert A.M. Stern (1939-2025)

Yesterday, on a day of giving thanks and sharing meals with our loved ones, we learned of Dean Stern’s passing. The sad news comes at a time when Rudolph Hall is uncharacteristically quiet. Fall recess is a time to return home—or at least step away from the building—catch up on sleep, or brace yourself for fast-approaching finals. Reading the headlines while away from the school, we were called back in spirit to the place to which Bob devoted decades of his life, as student, professor, and dean. We hallucinated sipping post-lecture martinis and discussing his work on postmodernism. As we return to our studios over the next few days, we are thankful for Dean Stern’s indelible influence on the school’s pedagogy and traditions. His legacy will live on in our school and in our memory for a very long time.

In the last year of his deanship, the editors of Paprika! interviewed Robert A.M. Stern on topics such as yellow socks, drafting by hand, and learning from the past.

“[Paprika!] Are you optimistic?

[Dean Stern] Well, we are meeting now in late March of 2016, and as I look at the political horizon, it’s hard to be as optimistic as I might have been in other similar periods earlier in my life. But I am basically an optimist. I think as an architect you have to be an optimist. You have to believe that what you’re making is going to be good and that people will value it, they will appreciate it, not necessarily as great art—but that’s not so bad—but as something that makes them smile, that makes them feel their lives are better, that they can do what they want to do in their lives in a better way. Those are all things architects can enable.

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You can find the full interview here: https://paprikamagazine.com/folds/masters/interview-with-robert-a-m-stern

Sincerely,

Paprika! Magazine Editors

Portrait by Abraham Lampert (MFA ’17)

11/10/2025

This Friday, November 14, is our first Paprika! Pit Crit - a peer review event to discuss each other’s work. Bring your models, old plots, sketchbooks, etc. and be ready to write some criticism in post-it form. Afterward we’ll discuss next year’s plan for Paprika! and answer questions about getting involved in leadership. Come for architecture and community!

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10/29/2025

Call for Submissions! Paprika! Volume 13, Issue 7: BEST BEFORE

People often believe that there is a “best” time to do certain things, after which one should stop. Best Before invites you to consider how we relate to change and expiration. Some changes are abrupt, while others unfold gradually, sometimes even imperceptibly. Yet each shift—no matter how subtle—can lead to something profound. If deterioration, like the traditional understanding of time, is to be perceived as a non-reversible, linear process, how do we draw the line between the “once good” and the “now bad”? Who decides when something is no longer suitable, usable, or relevant? The idea of stamping a best-before date on every product also reflects an urge toward consumption. Should we use something simply because we fear “waste”? Or does the drive to maximize every moment and resource carry its own forms of loss?

This issue calls for discourse, contemplation, and reinterpretation on expiration, consumption, and transformation through time—a can of thoughts sealed in the form of a broadsheet newspaper, which we hope will inspire before it, too, expires.

Please submit your abstract by Sunday, November 2 to [email protected]

Issue Editors
Yue Zeng & Lanna Yang

Graphic Designers
Ron Tau & Saerom Kim

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