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Articles

If we want to understand today’s prevailing ideas in design, we should look, not up at buildings, but down at our feet.

Sifting through the spoofable pedantry of An Anarchitectural Body of Work reveals Suzanne Harris, intrepid multipotentialite.

The Hungarian Pastry Shop plays itself.

New York’s landmarks legislation is more invested in preserving a particular image of the city than the possibility of life within it.

At SculptureCenter, a furtive piece of POPs art lies in ruins.

My longing for LOMEX occupies a kind of double counterfactual—what if, but what if not in that way—not wholly dissimilar from Rudolph’s own.

Mark Krotov and Thomas de Monchaux review Rudolph at the Met.

Sensitive to the subtle interplay of sound and space, Olga Touloumi’s self-consciously novel study of the United Nations offers an unintended material history of internationalism’s hollow performance.

Infested and loving it in New York City

On January 5, Doctor Kathy Hochul finally gave New York its gogo juice, prescribing a bitter pill known as congestion pricing to clear its clogged passages and stimulate its mass transit system.

Brains and brine on the Lower East Side

To have Jane Jacobs, we need to go beyond Jane Jacobs.

Personifications of pure, uncut genius square up against philistinism and its legion of jowly middlemen.

Audiences expected the Drake-sired respawn of Luna Luna to be fun. In fact, it was a memorial to fun.