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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.
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.