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Few architects of the last century worked at the same scale as John Andrews. What’s surprising is how unfazed he seemed by it all.

  • Out of Place, on view from September 22 to October 1st at Mextrópoli, Mexico City

Why is this replica here? Why is there a deep-rooted collective association between Barragán and Mexican identity? What lies behind the towering terrace walls?

The category Directed by Child of the Architect dominated this year’s Architecture and Design Film Festival.

  • How To with John Wilson, written and produced by John Wilson, ended its three-season run in July.

The people and things that John Wilson assembles in his beguiling anthology remain unassimilable in their bizarre singularity.

American Framing is overly eager to claim new ground for something that is surely unsustainable in the long term.

  • The sixty-first New York Film Festival.

“Trying hard to be the New York Film Festival—not the Lincoln Center or Upper West Side Film Festival.”

Therapy-speak for those bitten by the shopping bug.

A tale where there’s never enough room, where nothing but the essential lasts, where there aren’t morals so much as morality.

What is at stake in Flowcharting is the role that computation might play in a project for a “progressive” architecture.

For the most part, Emerging Ecologies occupies a mundane topography of composting toilets, upcycled materials, bioshelters, and geodesic domes.

Within so much physical unobtrusion and almost self-negating structures, you’ve got to supply your own atmospheric narrative.

How did a seemingly incorrigible part of New York, which countless mayors had promised, but failed, to clean up, change so drastically?

Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”