Architecture

Mark Lamster|Essays

High (Line) Anxiety

Is the High Line above criticism?

Observed|Events

NYC Architecture Design Film Festival

Now in its fourth season, the Architecture Design Film Festival will offer more than 25 films from around the world and panel discussions with design leaders and filmmakers.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shopping With Sandro, and Other Tumblr Delights

Digitizing the Miller House Collection, and other museum and corporate visual archives on Tumblr.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Having Fun at the Museum

Blocks, rocket ships, playgrounds and balls: the hidden meaning of playthings at the Museum of Modern Art.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Let’s Talk About Women in Architecture

A panel on Women in Design, and questions about whether such panels should exist.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Someone Else’s Shangri La

An exhibition of Doris Duke's Honolulu mansion, Shangri La, proves a “Spanish-Moorish-Persian-Indian complex” works as theater.

Rob Walker|Essays

The City In Your Dreams

A blog collecting stories for mapping the "collective unconscious" of NYC.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hiking the Museum

Ennead Architects’ new Natural History Museum of Utah works to make natural history seem like the ongoing process of discovery that it is, layering geology and topography, paleontology and interactivity.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Built Villain

A Dallas condo dispute considered as a monster movie, starring a built villain.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Charismatic Megafauna of Design

Identifying the "charismatic megafauna" of design and the critical uses of their popularity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Introducing Strelka Press

On Strelka Press, a new "digital first" publisher of longform architecture and design criticism.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dress Your Family in Formica and Faux Bois

The materials of architecture and interiors in the fashions of Schiaparelli and Prada.