#36
- Contributors
- Pete Segall, Philippa Snow, Marianela D’Aprile, Zain Khalid, Thomas de Monchaux, Eric Schwartau, Christopher Hawthorne, Enrique Ramirez, Eva Hagberg, Leah Aronowsky, Elizabeth Greenspan, Sam Kriss, Mimi Zeiger, John Wilson, Peter Lucas, Marianna Janowicz, Nolan Kelly, Dank Lloyd Wright, Fred Scharmen, Samuel Medina, Allison Hewitt Ward, Lily Puckett, Anjulie Rao, Ben Davis, Alex Feim, Nicolas Kemper, & Christopher Robbins
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C Suchara
- Illustrator
- The Hustle Architect
- Skyline Editors
- Kavyashri Cherala, Matthew Allen, Palmyra Geraki, Zachary Torres, & Sebastián López Cardozo
- Copy Editor
- Don Armstrong
Reviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”?
Skyline Dispatches
Blur Tool
It’s Gonna Be Cool
Northern Exposure
Political Theater
Articles
Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.
The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.
For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.
Notes on the American museum, the natural, and history
We’re attached to a dream we’ve been sold but can’t afford.
What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.
A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is no different.
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.
New York is a city of exhibitionists. Documentary filmmaker John Wilson is happy to oblige.
Student workers at the University of Michigan head into the summer without a contract.
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).
What links Peter Zumthor’s spartan Swiss studio and the late Ted Kaczynski’s infamous Montana shed?
It turns out that hill towns aren’t made all at once or by one person.
Everyone is recognizable, either because you know who they are or because you’ve seen these portraits before.
No doubt it’s a finer fate than the place becoming an Apple Store.
BYO: concrete pad, plumbing, electricity, interior finishes, permits, land, labor, tears.
The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.
Ancient Egypt, so strange yet familiar, is a projection screen for every age.
Ours is a world where everything but us gets to go up in flames.
Ten years of the Architecture Lobby have brought noise, melody, and everything in between.
“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.
The exhibition evokes medieval reliquaries—elevating the urban castoff to the realm of the sacred.
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.
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.
