Articles
Reviews
Radical Pedagogies, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister. MIT Press, 416 pp., $60
Architecture builds norms, and Radical Pedagogies’ project is to question the discipline’s fundamental assumptions.
Vacant Spaces NY by Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS Architects. Actar, 608 pp., $50
Peeling back the brown paper on Manhattan’s vacant retail spaces
Edward Hopper’s New York, curated by Kim Conaty with Melinda Lang, was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from October 19, 2022, to March 5, 2023.
For Edward Hopper, New York was a fount of sights that he never tired of seeing or, indeed, painting.
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access by David Gissen. University of Minnesota Press, 224 pp., $25.
The Architecture of Disability uses the lens of disability to reevaluate received architectural histories and speculate on a more inclusive architectural environment.
New York: 1962–1964 was on view at the Jewish Museum from July 22, 2022, through January 8, 2023.
On the too-muchness of “New York: 1962–1964”
Straight Line Crazy, a play by David Hare, ends its run at the Shed on December 18.
A Robert Moses play plays the hits.
The Storefront for Art and Architecture once approached serious topics with buoyancy and a sometimes tongue-in-cheek attitude. What happened?
Bernd and Hilla Becher was on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 15 to November 6.
The Bechers didn’t edit their photos the way contemporary photographers might, making the aesthetic continuity between each frame that much more impressive.
Model Behavior was on view at the Cooper Union from October 4 to November 18.
“Model Behavior” offers an incomplete model of models.
The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman. Penguin Press, 272 pp., $30
If New York was going down, we thought, we wanted to go down with it.
When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect by Eva Hagberg, 2022 (Princeton U. Press).
On the life of Aline Louchheim Saarinen, the wife and PR pro who wrote Eero into fame
Communes in the New World 1740–1972 by Liselotte and Oswald Mathias Ungers, translated by Winston Hampel. REAL, 102 pp., $22
They proved American socialism was possible, at least in microcosm.
Cezanne was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 15 through September 5, 2022.
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: EXITS EXIST is on view at the Graham Foundation in Chicago through the end of 2022.
Art can serve as both a necessary reprieve in a deeply fraught time and as a catalyst for change, inviting us to see things just a bit differently.
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell, 2022 (RIBA Publishing).
After years of trying, I finally feel at home in queer spaces.
The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present was open at the Drawing Center from June 15 to September 18, 2022.
The exhibition’s global scope is commendable, but, in spite of itself, all roads in “Clamor” lead west.
Claude Parent: Oblique Narratives No. 1 was on view at a83 from May 5 to July 3, 2022.
An exhibition devoted to the experimental French architect Claude Parent strikes a balance between his tough-minded seriousness and inspired lunacy.