Articles
Think about the climate crisis long enough, and the problem appears so vast as to be unthinkable. And yet, that’s what we must do.
Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.
Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.
In a time of multiple crises and an increased understanding of architecture’s complicity in spatial injustice, what and who is an architectural exhibition for?
ArchiPAC, the AIA’s campaign donation lobbying arm, spreads its dollars to both sides.
All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough by Rafael Herrin-Ferri. Jovis, 272 pp., $26.
Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s guidebook to Queens’ polymorphous saltboxes, shotguns, and McMansions is a romp through New York’s “global village.”
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini. Sublunary Editions, 148 pp., $18.
The most striking thing about A.V. Marraccini’s new book on criticism is not that it is personal, or even intimate—it’s that it is, against all odds, uncynical.
Various architectural exhibitions in 2023
In a time of multiple crises and an increased understanding of architecture’s complicity in spatial injustice, what and who is an architectural exhibition for?
Architecture and Abstraction by Pier Vittorio Aureli. MIT Press, 320 pp., $35.
In his latest treatise, Pier Vittorio Aureli frames architectural production as a stand-in for the much larger and more complex system of economic production as a whole. The problems start there.
The Ideal Communist City by Alexei Gutnov, et al. Weiss Press, 192 pp., $25.
Newly reissued, The Ideal Communist City presents an abstract dreamworld whose contemporary relevance is questionable, to say the least.
Some Rockin’: Dan Graham Interviews by Gregor Stemmrich (ed.). Sternberg Press, 384 pp., $28.
Dan Graham’s quirks were the stuff of legend. They’re also key to appreciating his artworks.
