Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

Advance Praise for Master of Shadows

The first notices for Master of Shadows are beginning to flow in, and I'm happy to report that the initial response has been very positive indeed.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Ezra & Julius

Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller were the alfa and omega of American architectural photography.

Mark Lamster|Essays

A Plea for Crazy in Architecture

John Beckmann of the firm Axis Mundi is promoting an alternative to the Jean Nouvel tower that looks like a half-baked amalgam of several MVRDV projects.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Live Fast, Die Young

Dash Snow rests in a long line of dangerous, self-destructive artists who've captured the public imagination.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Sex or Biking?

A set of Tour de France photographs by Brent Humphreys indicates the short visual distance between agony and ecstasy.

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A Deal's a Deal: Significant Objects

Do you need any complicated theorizing to convince you to buy a totally awesome JFK bust that comes with its own backstory?

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Design Your Life

Written in collaboration with her twin sister, Ellen Lupton's Design Your Life is a joyful, thoughtful, rumination on the objects that occupy us, 

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The Folly of Man

"All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal but with a near infinite capacity for folly."

Mark Lamster|Essays

Architecture for Sale (Wright vs. Johnson)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House and Philip Johnson’s Farney House are both on the market.

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Nazdorovye!

Barack Obama is in Moscow hitting the reset button on Russian-American relations.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Antwerp Central

Built at the turn of the twentieth century, Antwerp's central rail station is a resplendent mash of neo-baroque forms and oriental detail.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Ovid: On Picking Up Girls (Literally)

Ovid gives some un-politically correct advice on playing hard to get.