Category: Essays

Chris Pullman|Dan Friedman

Dan Friedman, Radical Modernist, Part 3

From Basel to Yale

Chris Pullman|Dan Friedman

Dan Friedman, Radical Modernist, Part 2

Reconceptualized modernism

Chris Pullman|Dan Friedman

Dan Friedman, Radical Modernist, Part 1

A personal reflection on an eclectic design career

Rob Walker|Essays

Defending The Standpipe

A curious concentration of designs to discourage people from sitting on standpipes.

Bryan Finoki|Essays

Architecture vs. the People

How anti-homeless measures diminish a city’s responsibility to its most vulnerable citizens

Steven Heller|Essays

On Being Forgotten

Obscurity or death?

Erik Spiekermann|Essays

Analogue to the Rescue

The ability to measure time precisely freed minds, enabled science, and opened the world both to exploration and exploitation. Then it trapped us. Offline technologies may save the day (or night).

Rob Walker|Essays

Scalies in the Spotlight

The uncanny figures populating architectural renderings get some fresh scrutiny

Victoria Solan|Essays

Stereotypes and Family Reunions

A Conversation with Lisa Rosowsky

Blake Eskin|Essays

Along for the Ride

Is it in the public interest for municipal transit companies to give ad space to ridesharing services?

Robert Hetherington|Essays

Performance and the Construction of Identity

Is how we understand identity flexible enough to better our understanding of design and its makers?

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Beheading: A Visual History

From the Bible to the YBAs