Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster|Essays

Watching Movies about Architecture (and Design)

What makes a good film about architecture and design?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Art, Architecture & the Museum

It's time for a new avant-garde that isn't purely driven by formal experiment.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Rubens as Architect

An excerpt from Master of Shadows on the Rubens House, on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating Rubens as architect.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Steampunk Para-Architecture of Second Avenue

A generic dreadnaught takes over a stretch of Second Avenue. Can architects redeem it?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Andrés Duany’s Asian Problem

Andrés Duany and the Asian skyscraper boom. 

Mark Lamster|Essays

Renovations at the Museum

Balancing old and new at the AMNH.

Mark Lamster|Interviews

An Interview with Laurence King

Mark Lamster interviews Laurence King, the publisher.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Cacophony

Brief thoughts on MoMA's Talk to Me.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Are You Ready for Some Football?

The unseemly intrusion of corporations into public space.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Shigeru Ban in New York

Shigeru Ban's recently completed Shutter House condo in New York City.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Bjarke Ingels Has Something to Sell

Can Bjarke Ingels's pragmatic idealism save the world?

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Technicolor Dream of Make-Do Urbanism

Can supergraphics be an answer to urban problems?