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

  • The Laboratory of the Future, the Eighteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, is open through November 26.

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.

  • The Laboratory of the Future, the Eighteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, is open through November 26.

Lesley Lokko’s curation of the Central Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale offers a bright future.

  • Various national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale

A tour through the Venice Biennale National Pavilions

New York’s foremost memoirist-crank blames the “normals”—influencers, neo-yuppies, consumers with bland taste—for the city’s decline.

In which a nascent futurist, seasoned operator, and master craftsman attends to his legends

  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority R211 Subway Car, built by Kawasaki Railway Manufacturing, 2023

The new R211 subway cars represent a high-tech distraction from the system’s deeper woes.

An RPA-themed exhibition performed the usual lip service to social equity without addressing the inequality baked into prevailing models of development.

Just as the theory that image-based feeds instigated the brutalism revival never quite checked out, neither does SOS Brutalism’s stated raison d’être.

Downtown LA represents an intentional failure of the built environment.

On finding optimism at the Noguchi Museum

As if the concept of “justice” alone weren’t complicated enough, adding spatial to it moves things into labyrinthine territory.

In Unsupervised, everything comes to you from the giant LED screen and aiming straight for your eyeballs. Call it blunt force psychedelia.

On the work of wily Italian designer Gaetano Pesce

It would be tempting to lump CLT in with the “post-digital” tendency in architecture. But that would be wrong.

Like many disaster stories, the story of the Titanic continues to compel us because it contains so many traces of human choices and fallibility.