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