Architecture

William Drenttel|Essays

Report from Hale County, Alabama

H.E.R.O. (Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization) headquarters, Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama. Photo by Alissa WalkerAn occasional report from Winterhouse Institute on its Design for Social Impact & Innovation Project, …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Delayed Gratification: On Architectural Criticism

Caught up in the formal design aspects of a building, critics like Nicolai Ouroussoff overlook the social context.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Most Beautiful Crapper in the World

In 1772, the Antwerp alderman Adrien van den Bogaert purchased a historic property in the center of the city and then hired architect Engelbert Baets to renovate the place.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Beauty of a Park

The High Line in Manhattan, whose first section opened Monday, would seem to be Olmsted’s nightmare.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Beauty of a Park

The High Line in Manhattan, whose first section opened Monday, would seem to be Olmsted’s nightmare.

Mark Lamster|Essays

House in the Hills

We spent this past weekend at the beautiful weekend home of the Woo family, a masterwork of modernist architecture sequestered high in the rolling Vermont hills.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Memorial Day

It's Memorial Day in America, so let's talk for a moment about memorials.

Julie Lasky|Reviews

This End Up: Renzo Piano's Modern Wing

The Art Institute of Chicago, view of Modern Wing from Monroe Street. Photo: Charles G. Young, Interactive Design ArchitectsI was born in Chicago and raised up the road, but I never heard the word “fragility” associated with my …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Back to the Future

Over on the Itinerant Urbanist, Karrie Jacobs recently wrote about her first impression of Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in San Francisco.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Tbilisi's Hotel Iveria: A Defense

There's a piece on Oobject today that lists what that site claims are the fifteen worst “housing projects from hell.”

Thomas de Monchaux|Essays

The Mystery of Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 1990–1997. Photo courtesy Timothy Brown/Atelier FLIRAll mysteries disappoint. The power of a suggestive image you can't quite understand, or an airport thriller you haven't finished reading, or the …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Internally Yours

Is it me, or did the New Yorker just retroactively invent a new architectural movement?