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Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.
The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.
Notes on the American museum, the natural, and history
For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.
Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 was on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 852, from March 2 to September 4, 2023.
Berenice Abbott documented a city that seemed a monument to everything other than what and who had produced it.
On the Street: In-Between Architecture by Edwin Heathcote. Heni Books, 288 pp., $45.
The Financial Times’ architecture and design critic gets his steps in.
Architecture Now: New York, New Publics, curated by Evangelos Kotsioris, Martino Stierli, and Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, ran from February 19 to July 29, 2023.
Architectural impotence at MoMA’s latest
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck. Other Press, 304 pp., $28.
For the poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, the idea of a building is ludicrous, a bottomless vessel filled by an architect’s unslakable longing.
Discipline Park by Toby Altman. Wendy’s Subway, 109 pp., $18
It is the poet, of all people, who exposes the narratives that architects, critics, and institutions use to justify destruction.
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar. Penguin Press, 346 pp., $30.
What stands in the way of creating affordable housing, equitable urban spaces, and an architecture resonant with our climate-sensitive times? Parking policy.
