Articles

Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?

In his latest treatise, Pier Vittorio Aureli frames architectural production as a stand-in for the much larger and more complex system of economic production as a whole. The problems start there.

Getting to know City Island’s paper of record

Think about the climate crisis long enough, and the problem appears so vast as to be unthinkable. And yet, that’s what we must do.

Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.

Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.

The Forest reads like a heady and roving literary essay, whose forays into art and environment have a “blink and you’ll miss it” quality to them.

ArchiPAC, the AIA’s campaign donation lobbying arm, spreads its dollars to both sides.

Any future for Penn Station must make use (and reuse) of its past.

Could the horizons be broader for architecture unions?

The housing crisis won’t be solved through any one approach, least of all a photography triennial.

The city’s planned deprivation of public toilets is the original hostile architecture.

Van Gogh’s Cypresses was as peak-Met as we’re likely to see in our lifetime

Barbie’s Dreamhouse and the architecture of controversy

A self-described Renaissance man wrestles with the legacy of his former Bushwick abode.

Can a profession that tends to take itself too seriously learn to play seriously?