#37

- Contributors
- Piper French, Jenny Tobias, Samuel Medina, Jael Goldfine, Ben Davis, Kate Wagner, Ellen Peirson, Lily Puckett, Will Orr, Nicolas Kemper, Kate Aronoff, Jake Bittle, Owen Hatherley, Sean Tatol, Enrique Ramirez, Zach Mortice, Thomas de Monchaux, Marisa Cortright, Veronica Brown, Aaron Timms, Jessica Jacolbe, Claudia Ross, Eric Schwartau, Joseph Altshuler, Eva Hagberg, Ian Volner, Allison Hewitt Ward, & Alana Pockros
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C Suchara
Reviews
All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough by Rafael Herrin-Ferri. Jovis, 272 pp., $26.
Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini. Sublunary Editions, 148 pp., $18.
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.
Various architectural exhibitions in 2023
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?
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli. MIT Press, 320 pp., $35.
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.
The Ideal Communist City by Alexei Gutnov, et al. Weiss Press, 192 pp., $25.
Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.
Some Rockin’: Dan Graham Interviews by Gregor Stemmrich (ed.). Sternberg Press, 384 pp., $28.
Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.
Skyline Dispatches
High House
Rock Solid
Extremely Online
In Plane View
Articles
Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”

What happens when a revolutionary communist artist makes content for Amazon Prime?

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?

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

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.

Getting to know City Island’s paper of record

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.

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

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.

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

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


The housing crisis won’t be solved through any one approach, least of all a photography triennial.
The city’s planned deprivation of public toilets is the original hostile architecture.

Van Gogh’s Cypresses was as peak-Met as we’re likely to see in our lifetime

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

Can a profession that tends to take itself too seriously learn to play seriously?
This book is what happens when someone thinks the only reason they aren’t a professional writer is that they don’t have the time.
In New York, you can connect anything with anything, so long as you have the right connections.
People like a Yayoi Kusama because it looks like a Yayoi Kusama, i.e., polka dots.
An ideal summer read need not actually take place in the summer, but The Guest does it well.