Nicolas Kemper

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Publishers Noted

New York Review of Architecture is a worker cooperative.

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On the occasion of our first special issue

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The magazine batted down a suggestion from its architects to put bookshelf wallpaper on the wall: it would be redundant.

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Getting to know City Island’s paper of record

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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.

Publishers Noted

I first visited Seward Park on the Lower East Side in 2020, looking for a newspaper box that served as the single distribution point for a publication then much in demand among New York’s writing set: the Drunken Canal.

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The network probably enjoys the building’s intimidation factor.

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In its sixteen-foot-tall cellar, the presses churned out hundreds of thousands of issues a day. A gold-plated dome housing Pulitzer’s private office pierced through its cornice.

Publishers Noted

Or, an introduction to our redesign.

Conversation

Peter Eisenman memorably tussled with the late Christopher Alexander on a Harvard debate stage. He talks to NYRA about that match-up and his aversion to Alexander’s ideas about “comfort” and “harmony.”

Reportage

What’s the case against double loading a corridor?

Reportage

The drive to unionize architects looks like a contest between management and labor. This characterization, however, is misleading.

Review

Mohamed Elshahed’s quest to save Egypt’s architectural patrimony

Conversation

US bombs, Yemeni buildings, and Saudi urbicide

Dispatches

10/2/23

Meme Studies
UNION, NJ — “Rather than having [students] look at some building in France they could never go to, I [had] them draw the buildings they are constantly running through in video games.”
3/23/23

Old Habits Die Hard
Astor Place — “Have you ever felt frustrated working in axonometric?”
3/6/23

Boringization
Wall Street — “I’ve seen the renderings, and it ain’t going to work out.”
2/27/23

Fully Operational
World Trade Center — “The problem with ‘genericism’ is it costs so much operating budget to change the space, it may as well be a strait-jacket.”
10/26/22

Port City Primal Scream
New York Harbor — “It is so easy to forget that New York is a port city.”
10/25/22

That Other New York Review
Chelsea — New York Review of Sex, New York Review of Sex and Politics, and The New York Review of Sex, Politics, and Aeronautics...
6/9/22

Sufficient, Not Efficient
Lower Manhattan — We need to stop trying to do more with less and simply do a whole lot less.
3/10/22

Escaping Judgment Mode
Zoom — Unlike, say, films or books, people have very little choice about which architecture they consume.
1/17/22

You had to be there
Zoom — In the talk, Keller Easterling urged architects to move away from “geometric shapes and outlines” and look instead “at the rules and relationships that shape our space.” Easterling can be oblique in her methods—she cites rumors as an effective tool.
12/15/21

Tense Times in Chinatown
Chinatown — As artists, architects, and passerbys filled the sidewalk and the gallery in Chinatown, the air was abuzz with calls to sign petitions, analysis of competing opinion pieces, and artists weighing how far to push the very system upon which they depend for a living.
10/22/21

A very short dispatch from Overcoming Carbon Form
Zoom — “Mobility is in the service of creating a fully sedentary domesticity.”
10/6/21

Form Versus Flow
New York City — “What if architects dealt primarily not with form but with flow—material flow, energy flow, human flow?”
10/4/21

Skyrise for Harlem
New York City — “Architecture is the European art of building...it projects the future, it claims the future...it does not do well with the present at all...June Jordan, by contrast, is about the now and how to build the future in relationship to it.”
4/9/21

Cooperatization
Zoom — “The true goal of cooperatizing is not just the empowerment of architects, but the empowerment of communities.”
4/10/21

Mischievous Lines
New York City — Using the tricks of perspective, Ames dissolved the walls of the narrow gallery to take on the appearance of a much larger space.
3/25/21

A Better Public Realm
Zoom — “While everyone says vernacular architecture is declining, vernacular urbanism is growing immensely.”

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Dispatch

“This crowd wants to celebrate the corridor, not cancel it.”

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