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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?
This book is what happens when someone thinks the only reason they aren’t a professional writer is that they don’t have the time.
In New York, you can connect anything with anything, so long as you have the right connections.
People like a Yayoi Kusama because it looks like a Yayoi Kusama, i.e., polka dots.
An ideal summer read need not actually take place in the summer, but The Guest does it well.
Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.
The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.
For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.
Notes on the American museum, the natural, and history
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.
