Architecture

Mark Lamster|Essays

Design Writing: Vital Field or Museum Piece?

Is traditional architectural criticism dead?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Ornament & Time

Another loss to the digital age: the architectural clock.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Glass Houses

A new blog on architecture, design, art, new york, books and sport by Mark Lamster.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Super 8

Is BIG's 8 House just another version of the 'burbs?

Mark Lamster|Essays

LOMEX: Paul Rudolph’s Plan for Lower Manhattan

Does anything not look great as a model? Paul Rudolph’s proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway modeled by Cooper Union architectural students.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Keeping Faith

A church and a cemetery reawaken my faith in a higher architectural standard.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

GourmetLive: The Architecture of Food

Now that we know we produce too much waste, now that aesthetics are suspect, now that we must compost or perish, how do design and architecture retool themselves for less, or better, or tastier consumption?

John Thackara|Essays

Design Steps to Heaven

I recently visted Luzern, in Switzerland, for a workshop at the oldest art and design school in Switzerland, Hochschule Luzern. My host, Andy Polaine had asked me to set students in the first semester of the MA Design, a challenge.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Join the Conversation!

I am hosting this week's Glass House Conversations, inspired by the comments (on and off the blogosphere) in reaction to my negative review of the Museum of Modern Art's "Small Scale, Big Change" exhibition.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

AN Friday Review: Harry Weese

I review the new book The Architecture of Harry Weese. I was dreaming of a monograph on Weese only a few months ago. Unfortunately, this book was not what I had in mind.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Chased

Chase has shuttered its iconic bank branch at 43rd and Fifth, and I’m pissed and sad about it at once.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Northern Highlights

I don't usually do photo posts, but while I am mentally processing my trip to Denmark and Sweden, I thought I would share some architecture, design, foliage moments from the trip. I think the theme is texture.