Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

At Home at the Edge of the World

The immodestly modest architecture of Peter Bohlin. 

Mark Lamster|Essays

An (Overdue) Memorial for New York

Finally, an AIDS memorial for NYC.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Project Project Japan

A review of Project Japan, Rem Koolhaas's history of Metabolism

Mark Lamster|Essays

Rethinking Roosevelt Island

Thoughts on the new plan for a tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Magic Box: A History of the Microwave

Mark Lamster|Essays

Life Support: Can Architecture Make Us Healthy?

Thoughts on 'Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture,' and the CCA.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Beware of the Man in the Glass House

The Provocative Architecture of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Mark Lamster|Essays

Andrew Geller: 1924–2011

Remembering Andrew Geller, Long Island modernist of wit and charm.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Remembering Gene Summers, 1928–2011

Remembering Gene Summers, and a lesson from Mies.

Alexandra Lange|Lunch with the Critics

Lunch With The Critics: Second-Annual Year-End Awards

From Twitter to Apollo, Barbie to Occupy Everywhere: The best and worst moments in design for 2011.

Mark Lamster|Essays

It’s Not (Just) About the Bikes

The plight of public transit.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Tower Heists

Tower Heist and the architecture of spectacular consumption.