Articles

Articles

An exhibition devoted to the experimental French architect Claude Parent strikes a balance between his tough-minded seriousness and inspired lunacy.

Cripping is the action of invention. Just as Long Chu defines gender as the universal reaction to being female, so we might consider architecture to be the universal reaction to being crippled.

The Metaverse allows for a total divorce of design services from the messy obdurance of construction labor.

MoMA’s latest exhibition seeks to amend the architectural canon the museum had a major hand in packing.

There was no heroic image of housing design to be had in “Reset: Towards a New Commons,” and this was precisely its strength.

When everything is on fire, why worry about the little ember of a problem inside you?

Seeing everything through the lens of defense is the product of a landscape where form follows real estate speculation.

A tribute to Christopher Alexander

Conversation

NYRA talks to prominent labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about changing our views about work.

Zoe Zenghelis, a founder of OMA, now finds delight in delicacies of color.

Conversation

Peter Eisenman memorably tussled with the late Christopher Alexander on a Harvard debate stage. He talks to NYRA about that match-up and his aversion to Alexander’s ideas about “comfort” and “harmony.”

Christopher Alexander’s architectural ideas continue to exert an influence.

What’s the case against double loading a corridor?

Everything changed overnight.