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What gave the best of OMA’s buildings their power was a lively, active intelligence that was at war, equally, with nostalgia and bourgeois taste.
The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.
An atmosphere emerges of city life before its descent into the present monotony of glass façades and brushed steel.
The movement kept me engaged; the engagement softened into empathy.
Retrofuturism forecloses the true potential of the world to come.
Vivian Maier didn’t aim to exhaustively catalog her surroundings. What her work declares is that the ordinary cannot be exhausted.
The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.
The civic mainstays of childhood appeared in the form of friendly, cement-and-aggregate monsters.
The cocaine may have provided some pep for the completion of Grant’s memoirs, finished only three days before his passing.
The post-Hamilton death throes of our dramatic institutions insist that the show must go on.
Buckminster Fuller thought he had found the shape of utopia. What went wrong?
Petrit Halilaj turned doodles he found on elementary school desks in the former Yugoslavia into large-scale sculptures.
