#36

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Articles

Publishers Noted

Since I first signed up for e-flux about six years ago, the publishing platform has graced my inbox to the tune of about ten emails a day.

Wrecking Ball

A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.

Essay

Notes on the American museum, the natural, and history

Essay

On Denise Scott Brown’s inconvenient legacy

Conversation

New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.

Address A Building

The Star Wars–esque modular bathrooms have been kissed by a gentle coat of rust, from their corrugated metal facades to their tinny hand dryers.

Reportage

Student workers at the University of Michigan head into the summer without a contract.

Reportage

Ten years of the Architecture Lobby have brought noise, melody, and everything in between.

Catty Corner

We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.

Reviews

What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is no different.

Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.

  • The Laboratory of the Future, the Eighteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, is open through November 26.

Lesley Lokko’s sprawling, dense Biennale asks us to engage different representational languages. It’s a slow burn, but finding new legibility takes a moment.

Two approaches to weighing carbon form.

What do we mean when we call something “Piranesian”?

Architectural impotence at MoMA’s latest

For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.

  • Various national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale

A tour through the Venice Biennale National Pavilions

The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.

Shortcuts

At Risk of Uncoupling

Our oldest putative ancestors look rather cast out, as if they were ready to quit the scene and hail a taxi home (wherever that is).

Cottagecore

What links Peter Zumthor’s spartan Swiss studio and the late Ted Kaczynski’s infamous Montana shed?

Expansion Pack

It turns out that hill towns aren’t made all at once or by one person.

Familiar Faces

Everyone is recognizable, either because you know who they are or because you’ve seen these portraits before.

Going Once, Going Twice

No doubt it’s a finer fate than the place becoming an Apple Store.

Mini Me

BYO: concrete pad, plumbing, electricity, interior finishes, permits, land, labor, tears.

Over and Done With

The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.

Temple Run

Ancient Egypt, so strange yet familiar, is a projection screen for every age.

The Orange Gloaming

Ours is a world where everything but us gets to go up in flames.

Twilight of the Elites

“Succession” was a terrific show about the daddy issues of the “stealth luxury” set—but a just-OK show about the intersection of media and politics.

Well-Heeled

The exhibition evokes medieval reliquaries—elevating the urban castoff to the realm of the sacred.

Skyline Dispatches

6/30

Blur Tool
Coney Island — At this year’s Mermaid Parade, homespun fashion transformed hopeful fictions into galvanizing community.
6/30

It’s Gonna Be Cool
Long Island City — Plus Pool, an imaginary bobbing lido in the East River, is a project for people who want to live somewhere else entirely.
6/22

Northern Exposure
Clinton Hill — In which a plucky group of students surveys Greenland’s energy and water intake systems and extractive infrastructure—and gets stranded in the process
6/17

Political Theater
Kenmare Street — Dressed in brightly colored outfits, the chorale belted out beguiling lyrics that entwined such ills as toxic consumerism, climate change, and police brutality.
6/16

Air Can Break Your Heart
Morningside Heights — “Aeropolis is a queering territory,” she said, before inviting everyone to become “Aeropolians.”
6/1

Leave It at the Gate
San Francisco — The Disneyfication of the AIA national’s annual conference
6/1

Recovered Ground
Chelsea — “What we think produces what we make and do.... We are less comfortable thinking about our thoughts and the forms and shapes they take.”
5/31

Class Acts
FiDi — “A building with specificity is strangely more flexible,” Ramus said.
5/26

A Spanish Inquisition
Los Angeles — Which side of the Whole Earth Catalog—green capitalism or hippie modernism—was Jaque on?
5/25

Words on the Street
SoHo — The party spirit that animated this “block party” was only slightly dampened by a didactic art installation.

Buildings

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