Articles

Articles

If you need more prairie in your life, go outside.

The incidental noise of domestic work is both mute and shackling.

Hope for revolutionary agency is invested in the fragmented forms of another time.

Without a Party, what is left other than trolling Dezeen?

A good-intentioned book channels a torrent of research and riffs into galaxy-brain takes.

Hard-nosed rationalism proves a poor prophylactic against sinuous human desire.

The high artifice and warm sensuality of it all tickle in a good way.

Shortcut

Try to parse the narrative layers that great wealth accrues around itself, and you’ll up dizzy fast.

As moralizing, The White Lotus is blithely hollow; as camp, it’s depressingly prurient.

On the too-muchness of “New York: 1962–1964”

The network probably enjoys the building’s intimidation factor.

ChatGPT has no sensory organs, but it asserts that architecture is “a material and tactile experience.”

A plan to get post-pandemic New York back on track lacks imagination.

Catty Corner

Our Catty Corner columnist ponders the war on cars.

Wrecking Ball

The MTA thinks it can teach us something about beauty. Get outta here!

What is the student-debt crisis doing to the field of architecture?