Christopher Hawthorne
is senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture and was from 2004 to 2018 the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. In 2007 he flew to Ohio to review Coop Himmelblau’s addition to the Akron Art Museum, in case you’re wondering about his own culpability in propping up the starchitecture industrial complex.
Articles
Introducing our first guide to New York City: a print-first release you won’t find online (yet).
The most decisive year in LA’s modern history is around the corner. Will the city meet the moment?
According to Julian Rose, art museums today “effectively enjoy a monopoly on aura.”
Mayne, after installing himself at the top of the masthead, identifies himself there not as editor but “instigator.”
What gave the best of OMA’s buildings their power was a lively, active intelligence that was at war, equally, with nostalgia and bourgeois taste.
His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit.
On the avant-garde roots of Saudi Arabia’s improbable linear city
What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.
Mentions
“We live in a culture of marketing and things for sale. Critics are on the periphery of that culture,” Hawthorne said.