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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.
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.
