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The most striking thing about A. V. Marraccini’s new book on criticism is not that it is personal, or even intimate—it’s that it is, against all odds, uncynical.

In a time of multiple crises and an increased understanding of architecture’s complicity in spatial injustice, what and who is an architectural exhibition for?

In his latest treatise, Pier Vittorio Aureli frames architectural production as a stand-in for the much larger and more complex system of economic production as a whole. The problems start there.

Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.

Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.

The Forest reads like a heady and roving literary essay, whose forays into art and environment have a “blink and you’ll miss it” quality to them.

Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.

The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.

Architectural impotence at MoMA’s latest

For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.

It is the poet, of all people, who exposes the narratives that architects, critics, and institutions use to justify destruction.

What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.

What do we mean when we call something “Piranesian”?

Two approaches to weighing carbon form.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is no different.

Lesley Lokko’s sprawling, dense Biennale asks us to engage different representational languages. It’s a slow burn, but finding new legibility takes a moment.