Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

(Not) Basic Training

The J-E-T-S are out of the playoffs following a valiant effort yesterday afternoon. That's not a shocker, though their appearance in the AFC Championship Game certainly was surprising.

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Big Book, Small Reward

Among the trends I’d like to see disappear in this new decade is the trend of obscenely fat monographs.

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Big City, Big Game

As a kid, I was never one for the dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. I preferred the darkened precincts of the Hayden Planetarium, specifically the giant mechanical spider that was its Zeiss Mark VI projector, a truly …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Ralph Rapson: Forgotten Hero of Design Merch

If you're familiar with Cambridge, or just Harvard Square, you probably know Ben Thompson's wonderful Design Research building, now celebrating its 40th anniversary.

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Criticizing the Critics

The two men who controlled the architectural conversation in New York (and hence America and the world) for better than two decades have recently published collections of their criticism.

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Up from Zero

Progress at Ground Zero, reviewed.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Juliaan Lampens: An Architecture with Jaws

The idiosyncratic genius of a chapel inspired by a crocodile's jaws, and other works by a wonderful modern architect you don't know, but should.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Where New York’s Medicis Store their Junk

An extraordinary warehouse is a three-dimensional map of New York culture.

Mark Lamster|Reviews

Majority Report

Review of Design with the Other 90%: Cities

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Johnson and the Void

On the architectural vocubulary of Philip Johnson

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Whitney Museum’s Other New Building

Lot-ek puts a pop-up studio in the Whitney moat.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Unconventional Imagery

The GOP goes Soviet