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For all his “Junkspace” anti-consumerist rhetoric, Rem Koolhaas is phenomenally good at making shopping look fun.

I first visited Seward Park on the Lower East Side in 2020, looking for a newspaper box that served as the single distribution point for a publication then much in demand among New York’s writing set: the Drunken Canal.

Julie Becker spent her life in Los Angeles. She ended it there too.

Unlike the city’s current modes of participatory planning, a recent City College exhibition seemed genuinely concerned with realizing the desires of residents.

A union sympathizer turned strike veteran walks the picket line.

Manfredo Tafuri’s first book—a study on Japanese modern architecture—offers a picture of a brilliant historian as a young critic.

If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?

Blair Kamin’s “activism” is carefully modulated and deeply liberal in that it wants to preserve the status quo—in this case, a beautiful city skyline.

A pair of new books takes stock of Co-op City’s idealistic origins, brutal challenges, and lasting successes.

Architecture builds norms, and Radical Pedagogies’ project is to question the discipline’s fundamental assumptions.

Peeling back the brown paper on Manhattan’s vacant retail spaces

For Edward Hopper, New York was a fount of sights that he never tired of seeing or, indeed, painting.

On the surprisingly enduring resonance of the shopping center

The Architecture of Disability uses the lens of disability to reevaluate received architectural histories and speculate on a more inclusive architectural environment.

Architecture is a succubus that extracts everything it can.

Finally, an art exhibition mercifully devoid of the weight of being a serious artist