Samuel Medina
Articles
Review
Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”
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The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.
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He was an architect who designed for infinity, if not for the future.
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Without a Party, what is left other than trolling Dezeen?
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Hard-nosed rationalism proves a poor prophylactic against sinuous human desire.
Dispatches
10/17/23
Centennial Man
NOMAD —
“I was sitting in Crown Hall with a friend, and Judy walked by.”
5/5/23
Biomorphique Fantastique
UPPER WEST SIDE —
Beyond the frame lies something more mundane: drywall, and lots of it.
3/2/23
Screen Presence
PRINCETON —
Kats’s presentation diverged from the standard monographic treatment by fastening onto a wider perspective.
12/1/22
Star Turns
Hamilton Heights —
In a bottom drawer, she found an unfinished novel (“kinda trashy”) Berman had penned in the mid-1960s, involving romantic love and the Weather Underground.
