Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Lost Architectural Muse of the AIDS Generation

A new book recovers the history of beach house maestro Horace Gifford, who built for a gay generation lost to AIDS.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Lost Landmarks in New York and Fort Worth

Modern landmarks, in New York and Fort Worth, are destroyed before preservationist can act.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Family Store

An old menu prompts a rumination on the nature of food, cities, and the source of Babe Ruth's power.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Tower that Beer Built

A review of the Kirby (nee Busch) Building in Dallas, now a residential apartment house but originally a spec office tower financed by the St. Louis beer barron Adolphus Busch.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Bush Library

A review of the Bush Library.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Story of Seagram

The story of the Seagram Building, the world's most beautiful washing machine, and the woman who made it happen.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Dallas Way

I am pleased to announce that next month I will become the new architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Inventing the Modern Library

A new exhibition of Henri Labrouste, the French architect who invented the modern library.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Orange City

That the orange could be an antidote to the travails and toxins of the city has been a theme in their history and propagation, and one not unconnected to the development of architecture.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Imaginary Worlds of Stephen Talasnik

The extraordinary work of Stephen Talasnik.

Mark Lamster|Essays

I Love New York at Night

A Visual Celebration of the City that Never Sleeps

Mark Lamster|Essays

Norman Foster’s NYPL: Not Good Enough

The new plans for the NYPL lack architectural distinction.