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Architecture needs more Scabby the Rats.

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.

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.

Architecture’s history with widespread illness emphasizes the discipline’s ability to support public health.

Architecture becomes a backdrop for the struggle, real or imagined, between survival and doom.

Densities are shifting, and it may be for the better.

It’s not carbon; it’s carbon modernity.

When most of us turn and look at our interiors, there is no quality to be seen, let alone any architecture.