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Evading the question of fare evasion

New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.

The warm, comforting glow was unmistakable.

A shockingly unfeeling and vague idea of home

For Mark Foster Gage, the main issue with suburbanization is its ugliness, for which the alleged failings of architectural education are held responsible.

A visit to the Astor Place Wegmans confirms we are, now and forever, among the Etruscans
(and also stuck in the ’90s).

Is the myth of “pure originality” still a worthy target of criticism in 2024?

In his fanaticism for capitalist optimization, H. H. Holmes was the equal or better of any industrial baron.

Once radical in their challenge to religious and monarchical power, the assumptions undergirding the liberal humanist tradition—and its artwork—now feel
entrenched and flawed.

His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit. 

With each new draft—one more improvident than the last—Boris Iofan allowed the Palace of the Soviets to float higher into an illusory realm.

Algorithms are more our mirrors than our captors.

Designers, Silvio Lorusso stresses, have not properly plumbed the depths of their own uselessness.