Architecture

Mark Lamster|Essays

Beauty on the Border

Stop-you-in-your-tracks beauty on the US/Canada border.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Ugliest Object I Have Ever Owned

What's the ugliest object you've ever owned (and loved)?

Mark Lamster|Essays

Road Trips: Louwman Museum and Powers Field

Thinking about new(ish) projects by Michael Graves and Rafael Vinoly

Alexandra Lange|Interviews

Dan Wood

A conversation with WORKac architect Dan Wood about design, food and cities.

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.