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Articles

Two approaches to weighing carbon form.

On Denise Scott Brown’s inconvenient legacy

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.

Conversation

New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.

Reportage

Student workers at the University of Michigan head into the summer without a contract.

A tour through the Venice Biennale National Pavilions

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).

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What links Peter Zumthor’s spartan Swiss studio and the late Ted Kaczynski’s infamous Montana shed?

As the drone pans over the now empty, Borg-like interiors, commentators talk about the “soul” of the place.

It turns out that hill towns aren’t made all at once or by one person.

Everyone is recognizable, either because you know who they are or because you’ve seen these portraits before.

No doubt it’s a finer fate than the place becoming an Apple Store.

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BYO: concrete pad, plumbing, electricity, interior finishes, permits, land, labor, tears.