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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.

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.

Brutalism of a different kind.

Architecture needs more Scabby the Rats.

Architecturally, the Vessel is barren; it’s steel and copper and stone. It looks like shearing metal sounds.

The future, according to Benjamin Bratton

Recovering a forgotten form of critical practice through reading.

Postmodernism is back, though not in the way that some architects would have liked.

What do we monumentalize when we build?

The NYPD has had an affinity for the militaristic since its inception.

A unique destination among New York’s coastal attractions.

A microcosm of the temporary architectural response to this moment of viral crisis.

Building as bay window writ large.