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Anjulie Rao

is a journalist and critic covering the built environment. She graduated with a master’s in New Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with $54,000 in debt. Currently she owes the federal government $26,000.

Articles

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

If you need more prairie in your life, go outside.

What is the student-debt crisis doing to the field of architecture?

Can the Chicago Architecture Biennial be remade into an institution of critique? The Available City answers with a “maybe.”

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“We live in a culture of marketing and things for sale. Critics are on the periphery of that culture,” Hawthorne said.

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