Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Other Ezra Stoller

No achitect is unfamiliar with Ezra Stoller, the pioneering photographer whose clinical eye defined modernism and shaped our vision of the built world for much of the twentieth century.

Mark Lamster|Essays

F*ck Elegant

A single word is destroying design communication. We must stop it.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Lebbeus Woods + John Johansen: Memories of Architecture’s Lost Visionaries

Remembering two of architecture's great but very different visionaries, Lebbeus Woods and John Johansen.

Mark Lamster|Essays

High (Line) Anxiety

Is the High Line above criticism?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Nick Tobier Will Make You Smile

The wondrous and inspiring installation work of Nick Tobier.

Mark Lamster|Interviews

The Rise and Fall of Polaroid: An Interview with Christopher Bonanos

A conversation with Chrisopher Bonanos on Instant, his history of Polaroid and Edwin Land

Mark Lamster|Essays

Mr. Wright Comes to Moloch

Frank Lloyd Wright comes to New York

Mark Lamster|Essays

Literature’s Harshest Criticism

What is the harshest architectural criticism in literature?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Celebrating the Undecorated Shed

What an undecorated shed says about signature architecture.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Barnes Foundation and Corporate Space

The Barnes Foundation and the corporatization of public space.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Once & Future Library

The Library, declared dead, is more popular than ever.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Architect & The Critic: An Epistolary Tale

An architect & a critic fight it out in the mail.