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Barbie’s Dreamhouse and the architecture of controversy

Could the horizons be broader for architecture unions?

A self-described Renaissance man wrestles with the legacy of his former Bushwick abode.

The city’s planned deprivation of public toilets is the original hostile architecture.

ArchiPAC, the AIA’s campaign donation lobbying arm, spreads its dollars to both sides.

Getting to know City Island’s paper of record

Any future for Penn Station must make use (and reuse) of its past.

Think about the climate crisis long enough, and the problem appears so vast as to be unthinkable. And yet, that’s what we must do.

Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?

Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.

The Forest reads like a heady and roving literary essay, whose forays into art and environment have a “blink and you’ll miss it” quality to them.

In his latest treatise, Pier Vittorio Aureli frames architectural production as a stand-in for the much larger and more complex system of economic production as a whole. The problems start there.

Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”

The most striking thing about A. V. Marraccini’s new book on criticism is not that it is personal, or even intimate—it’s that it is, against all odds, uncynical.

In a time of multiple crises and an increased understanding of architecture’s complicity in spatial injustice, what and who is an architectural exhibition for?

Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.