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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.
A new volume claims to present a representative slice of contemporary “progressive” architecture. But why this architecture now?
The vision of the new Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute is one of intent rather than form.
The drive to unionize architects looks like a contest between management and labor. This characterization, however, is misleading.
Architecture is a field that so often puts on a social face while being inwardly and profoundly antisocial. It will not change until you—we—change it.
In its early days, the Bauhaus was associated with cathedrals—or at any rate, the idea of cathedrals.
Today, the federal government employs roughly 1,839 architects in total. It isn’t clear how many of these workers are unionized.
Members of the Architecture Lobby discuss unions and climate change with NYRA.
New York’s new observatories offer an exalted vision of the self. It’s an ugly image.
These strangely situated places of worship were designed to be read in close proximity and relationship to their neighbors.
I always see buildings through the lens of people—the people who wanted to see them through and the people who had to because there wasn’t anyone else.
