#33
- Contributors
- Nicolas Kemper, Phillip Denny, James Wines, Marianela D’Aprile, Gideon Fink Shapiro, Thomas de Monchaux, Karrie Jacobs, Yasmin Nair, Carolyn Bailey, Charlie Dulik, Sean Tatol, Michael Nicholas, Alex Kitnick, Eric Schwartau, Gabrielle Sierra, Clare Fentress, Nolan Kelly, Anjulie Rao, Sophie Haigney, Ian Volner, Piper French, Mimi Zeiger, Ben Davis, Ana Karina Zatarain, Sasha Frere-Jones, Samuel Medina, Aaron Bady, Pete Segall, Allison Hewitt Ward, Angie Door, Tim Cox, Harish Krishnamoorthy, Brandon Koots, Randa Omar, Darrick Borowski, & Sam Naylor
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C. Suchara
- Illustrators
- Maxfield Schnaufer, Sean C. Suchara, & The Hustle Architect
- Operations
- Nicholas Raap
- Skyline Editors
- Gideon Fink Shapiro, Nicolas Kemper, Palmyra Geraki, Sebastián López Cardozo, & Anny Li
- Copy Editor
- Benjamin Spier
Articles
The network probably enjoys the building’s intimidation factor.
If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?
ChatGPT has no sensory organs, but it asserts that architecture is “a material and tactile experience.”
A plan to get post-pandemic New York back on track lacks imagination.
Observations on New York’s sky-high columbaria of burnt money
The MTA thinks it can teach us something about beauty. Get outta here!
Reviews
Architect, Verb: The New Language of Building, by Reinier de Graaf. Verso, 272 pp., $26.95.
In which a nascent futurist, seasoned operator, and master craftsman attends to his legends
Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin, with photography by Lee Bey. University of Chicago Press, 312 pp., $29.
Blair Kamin’s “activism” is carefully modulated and deeply liberal in that it wants to preserve the status quo—in this case, a beautiful city skyline.
Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City by Robert M. Fogelson. Princeton University Press, 408 pp. $40
Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York by Annemarie H. Sammartino. Cornell University Press, 320 pp., $33
A pair of new books takes stock of Co-op City’s idealistic origins, brutal challenges, and lasting successes.
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.
SOS BRUTALISM—Save the Concrete Monsters! was open at the Yale School of Architecture from August 25 to December 10, 2022.
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.
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”
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.
In Praise of Caves: Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain, curated by Dakin Hart, was on view at the Noguchi Museum from October 19, 2022 to February 26, 2023.
On finding optimism at the Noguchi Museum
