Architecture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Beyond Gorgeous

Is prettiness a distraction? Yes, when it comes to taking Alexander Girard seriously.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Bush Library

A review of the Bush Library.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Architecture Without Signs

If you can't find the entrance, there's a problem with the architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What It Costs (to Buy a Bench, to Extend a Curb)

Participatory budgeting lets communities put their own urban priorities in order.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Portlandia + Timelessness

No better place to consider what looks timeless now than downtown Portland.

Alexandra Lange|Slideshows

Instagramming Around Australia

Lessons from contemporary Australian architecture, plus what I saw on Instagram.

Philip Nobel|Reviews

Oops: Understanding Failure

A review of To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, by Henry Petroski.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Inventing the Modern Library

A new exhibition of Henri Labrouste, the French architect who invented the modern library.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Why Bernadette Fox Is Scary

The heroine of Where’d You Go, Bernadette is an award-winning female architect. Don’t envy her life.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Kicked A Building Lately?

That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Other Ezra Stoller

No achitect is unfamiliar with Ezra Stoller, the pioneering photographer whose clinical eye defined modernism and shaped our vision of the built world for much of the twentieth century.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Knolling Your Polling Place

Knolling your polling place: for the next election, a little spatial organization would go a long way.