#36
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- Nicolas Kemper, Eva Hagberg, Thomas de Monchaux, Nolan Kelly, Christopher Hawthorne, Dank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Greenspan, Fred Scharmen, Marianela D’Aprile, Sam Kriss, John Wilson, Eric Schwartau, Pete Segall, Mimi Zeiger, Leah Aronowsky, Enrique Ramirez, Christopher Robbins, Peter Lucas, Samuel Medina, Zain Khalid, Marianna Janowicz, Philippa Snow, Allison Hewitt Ward, Lily Puckett, Anjulie Rao, Ben Davis, Alex Feim, Ben Barsotti Scott, Emily Kwok, Layna Chen, Zachary Torres, Alexandra Oetzel, Patrick Rutan, Poun Laura Kim, Shane Reiner-Roth, & Michael Nicholas
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- Samuel Medina
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- Marianela D’Aprile
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- Nicolas Kemper
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- Laura Coombs
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- Seth Thompson
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- Sean C. Suchara
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Articles
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.
A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.
Notes on the American museum, the natural, and history
New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.
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.
Student workers at the University of Michigan head into the summer without a contract.
Ten years of the Architecture Lobby have brought noise, melody, and everything in between.
We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.
Reviews
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar. Penguin Press, 346 pp., $30.
What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline, directed by Daniel Goldhaber, opened in the US on April 7, 2023.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is no different.
Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 was on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 852, from March 2 to September 4, 2023.
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.
Confronting Carbon Form, curated by Elisa Iturbe, Stanley Cho, and Alican Taylan, was on view at the Cooper Union from March 21 to April 16.
Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future by Material Cultures with Amica Dall. Mack Books, 144 pp., $22.
Two approaches to weighing carbon form.
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, curated by John Marciari, was on view at the Morgan Library from March 10 to June 4, 2023.
What do we mean when we call something “Piranesian”?
Architecture Now: New York, New Publics, curated by Evangelos Kotsioris, Martino Stierli, and Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, ran from February 19 to July 29, 2023.
Architectural impotence at MoMA’s latest
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck. Other Press, 304 pp., $28.
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
On the Street: In-Between Architecture by Edwin Heathcote. Heni Books, 288 pp., $45.
The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.
