Architecture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

Mark Lamster|Essays

High Net Space: The New International Style

High Net Space: The New International Style

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A World of Paste and Paper

Today's obsession with digital renderings sparked two exhibitions that suggest a handmade, but far from quaint, corrective.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Architecture's Proto-Blogger

G.E. Kidder Smith, forgotten master of architectural criticism.

Observed|Essays

Making Big Things Out of Small Pieces

Researchers at MIT have developed a super strong material created out of interlocking small parts

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Rural Vacation | Urban Questions

Driving Vermont's rural routes I began to wonder: Why does this town get a brand-new energy-efficient supermarket, and that one a minimart-slash-video store-slash-bank?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Nevermind the Masterpiece

What's your "Masterpiece of Everyday New York"? A broken umbrella? A shirtwaist? Discarded gum?

Debbie Millman|Audio

Jean-Louis Cohen

Jean-Louis Cohen reveals a Le Corbusier who was not only a great architect, but also a savvy promoter of his own ideas and work.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Lost Landmarks in New York and Fort Worth

Modern landmarks, in New York and Fort Worth, are destroyed before preservationist can act.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Every Little Thing

Cranbrook: A campus where the designers have thought of everything.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Praise the Partner(s)

Salute Denise Scott Brown because she deserves it, but let's not forget the other partners.

Observed|Events

Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America

Michigan was an epicenter of modern design in postwar America, this summer the story will be told through a symposium at the Cranbrook Educational Community and an exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum.