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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.



From 1900 to 1972, New York City built seventy-seven public pools. Since 1972, the city has completed just five. What happened?
Architecturally, the Vessel is barren; it’s steel and copper and stone. It looks like shearing metal sounds.


Recovering a forgotten form of critical practice through reading.

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

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

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