Architecture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Time to Move On

A very nice house in Montauk embodies the most recent cliches in architecture: floating staircases, pocket doors, and glass floors.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Up in the Air

For spires in New York, height doesn’t matter, style does.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Out of Love with Piano

After reading Reading Martin Filler’s review of Renzo Piano’s proposed addition to the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, I was struck again by how Piano’s critical reception seems to have curdled.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Below Black Rock

While the plaza around the CBS Building in Manhattan has always seemed perverse, it is now made worse with the addition of a bank.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Philip Johnson’s Plan for America

We Americans are a can-do, optimistic lot.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Whatever Happened to Architecture Critique?

Sometimes it feels like everything is shrinking: the magazines, the word counts, the outlets, and especially the critics.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson|Report

New Visions of Home

Report on new housing models for the elderly.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Return to Modern Roots

I finally got a chance to see the new North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, by Thomas Phifer & Partners, which opened this spring.

Steven Heller|Slideshows

Fascist Seduction

A visit to Mussolini’s Esposizione Universale Roma makes evident that one can be fervently anti-fascist and still admire — indeed savor — aesthetics for their own merits.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Diana Center & Architectural Bull----

Though rave reviews (Architect, Metropolis, previously New York) are rolling in for Weiss/Manfredi’s Diana Center at Barnard College, every review has praised two things that I quickly dismissed as the most basic architectural …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Terminal City: I.M. Pei & Philip Johnson at JFK

Back in the day, when the airport was a destination in and of itself.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In Metropolis: Blue Sky Thinking

What’s really happening at Inland Steel?