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It is the poet, of all people, who exposes the narratives that architects, critics, and institutions use to justify destruction.
After a fire damaged a small Sunset Park church in 1947, the congregation asked Alvar Aalto to lead the redesign. The world-famous architect agreed, and then the drawings disappeared.
We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.
What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.
A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.
Food halls have spread far and wide, deflavorizing neighborhoods every step of the way.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is no different.
Lesley Lokko’s sprawling, dense Biennale asks us to engage different representational languages. It’s a slow burn, but finding new legibility takes a moment.
Lesley Lokko’s curation of the Central Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale offers a bright future.
New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.
Student workers at the University of Michigan head into the summer without a contract.
Our oldest putative ancestors look rather cast out, as if they were ready to quit the scene and hail a taxi home (wherever that is).