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Bauhaus: A Graphic Novel, Penguin Random House
More than you might think.
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, open through July 2
MoMA’s latest exhibition seeks to amend the architectural canon the museum had a major hand in packing.
Reset: Towards a New Commons was on view at the AIA New York Center for Architecture from April 14 to September 3, 2022.
There was no heroic image of housing design to be had in “Reset: Towards a New Commons,” and this was precisely its strength.
Paris, 13th District directed by Jacques Audiard
When everything is on fire, why worry about the little ember of a problem inside you?
Zoe Zenghelis: Fields, Fragments, Fictions was open at the Carnegie Museum of Art from March 26 to July 24, 2022.
Zoe Zenghelis, a founder of OMA, now finds delight in delicacies of color.
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder. Harvard GSD, 624 pp., $60
A new volume claims to present a representative slice of contemporary “progressive” architecture. But why this architecture now?
Cairo Modern, curated by Mohamed Elshahed, ran at the Center for Architecture in New York from October 1, 2021 to January 22, 2022
Mohamed Elshahed’s quest to save Egypt’s architectural patrimony
The Chicago Architecture Biennial: The Available City ran from September 1 to December 31, 2021.
Can the Chicago Architecture Biennial be remade into an institution of critique? The Available City answers with a “maybe.”
Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta, was released in the US in August 2021.
Candyman’s 2021 adaptation is a distinct type of architecture-bound horror, where space is violated as spectacularly as the slashed bodies of murder victims.
Daydream Houses of Los Angeles by Charles Jencks. Rizzoli, 64 pp.
An overlooked classic by Charles Jencks finds the serial taxonomist in top form.
Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection was on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from May 28 to September 12, 2021.
The architecture of the stage is neither purely image nor purely space, but rather something tenuous that falls in between.
Theory’s Curriculum by Joseph Bedford (ed.). The Architecture Exchange, 166 pp., $10.
To many observers, theory in architecture persists only in a zombified form. Some aren’t so sure.
Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. Verso, 800 pp., $25
We can’t wait around for a spark, Mike Davis always seemed to be saying.
The Lives of Others: Sublime Interiors of Extraordinary People, Rizzoli, 2020.
Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan, VI PER Gallery, Prague, 2021.
Whether minimalist or maximalist, the designer-y vessels of luxe living are little but financial instruments.
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America was on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from February 27 to May 31, 2021.
In wishing to communicate the totality of Blackness, Reconstructions forgoes the tools and signifiers of conventional architectural production in favor of world building.
Unlike the trains now operating at austerity levels of service, Moynihan Train Hall has arrived exactly on time, ready to uplift.