Mark Lamster

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Design Writing: Vital Field or Museum Piece?

Is traditional architectural criticism dead?

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Boom Goes Pop

Mark Lamster reviews Irma Boom's book, Irma Boom — Biography in Books.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Glass Houses

A new blog on architecture, design, art, new york, books and sport by Mark Lamster.

Mark Lamster|Essays

LOMEX: Paul Rudolph’s Plan for Lower Manhattan

Does anything not look great as a model? Paul Rudolph’s proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway modeled by Cooper Union architectural students.

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Trabantimino

The idea: fuse a Trabant, that iconic East German junkmobile, with an El Camino, the classic American musclecar.

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Chased

Chase has shuttered its iconic bank branch at 43rd and Fifth, and I’m pissed and sad about it at once.

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Modern Views, Home and Abroad

What would Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson have thought of sharing the billing in Modern Views, the new book celebrating the Farnsworth House and the Glass House?

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Wavefield: Maya Lin at Storm King

I went out with the family to see Maya Lin’s Wavefield up at Storm King Art Center over the weekend.

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Stirling’s Gold

James Stirling's drawings on view at Yale are extraordinary — it’s a shame that this skill, which was obviously so central to the design process, has become all but obsolete.

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Center of Controversy

By now you’ve surely seen the new renderings by SOMA architects for Park51, the Muslim cultural center in Lower Manhattan.

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Upside Dome

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s “Upside Dome” installation at St. Michiel’s in Leuven is so beautiful I can’t help but post a picture of it here

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Dishing on Design Research

As a kid in 70s-era New York, I wasn’t especially attuned to home decor. But there was one thing I did notice: virtually all of my friends’ parents had the same tableware.