Samuel Medina
Articles
Review
With each new draft—one more improvident than the last—Boris Iofan allowed the Palace of the Soviets to float higher into an illusory realm.
Review
Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”
Shortcut
The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.
Shortcut
He was an architect who designed for infinity, if not for the future.
Shortcut
Without a Party, what is left other than trolling Dezeen?
Shortcut
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.
