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The cosmically pop take on Eero Saarinen’s CBS Building you never knew you needed
An overlooked classic by Charles Jencks finds the serial taxonomist in top form.
The architecture of the stage is neither purely image nor purely space, but rather something tenuous that falls in between.
To many observers, theory in architecture persists only in a zombified form. Some aren’t so sure.
We can’t wait around for a spark, Mike Davis always seemed to be saying.
From 1900 to 1972, New York City built seventy-seven public pools. Since 1972, the city has completed just five. What happened?
Whether minimalist or maximalist, the designer-y vessels of luxe living are little but financial instruments.
In wishing to communicate the totality of Blackness, Reconstructions forgoes the tools and signifiers of conventional architectural production in favor of world building.
Unlike the trains now operating at austerity levels of service, Moynihan Train Hall has arrived exactly on time, ready to uplift.
Architecturally, the Vessel is barren; it’s steel and copper and stone. It looks like shearing metal sounds.
Bjarke Ingels’s further adventures in technological determinism
We’re accustomed to thinking about the US-Mexico border as an abstraction. A new book tries to find intimacy in it.
US bombs, Yemeni buildings, and Saudi urbicide
Recovering a forgotten form of critical practice through reading.
Walking toward its rising and falling wall, the memorial appears understated, generously inviting life to register against it.
