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What gave the best of OMA’s buildings their power was a lively, active intelligence that was at war, equally, with nostalgia and bourgeois taste.
Maligned and condemned, the Port Authority Bus Terminal will be missed after it’s gone.
Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks,” curated Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen, was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 2 to September 22, 2024.
O’Keeffe’s New Yorks did not exist in an artistic vacuum; they live within an entire tradition of experimental art about modern architecture.
Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism, and The Market by Anthony Fontenot. University of Chicago Press, 376 pp., $54.
The desire for spontaneity was overtly political, a reaction to the perceived authoritarianism of the planners, broadly defined.
Villa E: A Novel by Jane Alison. Liveright, 192 pp., $24.
It’s August 1965; Eileen Gray is eighty-seven and blind in one eye, and she’s spending a week on the French Riviera to design an extension for a house she’d built decades ago.
The Complete Guide to Combat City by Julia Schulz-Dornburg. Jovis, 156 pp.,
$40.
The world is rapidly urbanizing, and the theater of battle is urbanizing with it.
