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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.
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.