Urban Renewal, A Blight on Other American Cities, Sparked an Architectural Renaissance in Pittsburgh
The editors of the new volume Imagining the Modern argue that the reviled federal program was responsible for creating the postcard Pittsburgh.
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Finding Women Architects in Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Fictional depictions like Bernadette form a vital accompaniment to initiatives that seek to help women architects flourish.
This Year's MoMA PS1 YAP Summer Pavilion Takes on Real Estate and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Designed by Mexico City–based Pedro & Juana, Hórama Rama reflects on the rampant real estate development that has enveloped PS1, as well as wider political and environmental issues.
New York’s Iteration of the Cruising Pavilion Charts an Architecture of Queerness
The Lower East Side exhibition closes April 7 before being reprised in Stockholm this fall.
Despite Its Oft-Copied Look, the Sea Ranch Still Provides Rich Architectural and Social Lessons for Today
An exhibition at SFMOMA doesn’t dwell on the development’s prehistory and afterlife, but rather tries to recover some of its original sensibility.
See the Swan Song Designs of Paul Rudolph
This Center for Architecture exhibition provides fresh insight into the architect's last designs in East Asia.
Against Pluralism, Again: Two Books Rethink Theory and Criticism's Role in Architecture
Not Interesting and Possible Mediums both depict and challenge our pluralistic age, in which architects are pressured to package themselves as commodities.
Yale School of Architecture's "Two Sides of the Border" Reimagines the U.S-Mexico Border
The Tatiana Bilbao–organized show uses student work, Iwan Baan photography, and maps to present multitudinous—though sometimes blurry—visions for the contentious region.
In His Latest Residential Building, OMA's Reinier de Graaf Doesn't Practice What He Preaches
OMA's Norra Tornen in Stockholm, whose showy launch purposely coincided with that of a nearby residential project by BIG, is a pedagogical embarrassment, our critic writes.
New Documentary Provides a Portrait of Design Superstar Dieter Rams
In Rams, Gary Hustwit—of Helvetica and Objectified acclaim—looks into the enduring legacy of the 86-year-old German industrial designer.
Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World
The new book The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit? offers lessons for today by looking at Biosphere 2, Eden Project, and other microworlds.
Taking a Second Look at This Year's Nebulous Venice Architecture Biennale
Freespace, now in its third month, is an exercise in subjective taste-making rather than research-driven programming.
Manifesta 12 Uses Art and Architecture to Make Powerful Social Commentary
The collaborative ecosystem of commissioned artists, architects, botanists, activists, journalists, and many others embeds itself into the context of the city, engaging with the cultural palimpsests of Palermo on an intimate scale.
Sam Jacob Puts Perspective in Perspective at London’s RIBA
Disappear Here, RIBA's latest show, is an eclectic reimagining of architectural perspective, from drawing convention to world-historical force.
Arguing With Alexa at MAIO's Smart Home Installation in London
Home (Act 1) speaks to a relatable paranoia over smart technology's impact on domestic privacy.
Revisiting the True Meaning of "High Tech" Architecture
A new exhibition held within a pioneering building of the so-called High Tech movement prompts a reevaluation of the relationship between architecture, technology, and structural expression.
“Freespace” Shows That Architects Must Retool Their Relationship to Power—and to the Biennale
At this year’s edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, there was little evidence of a discipline coming to grips with pressing issues.
The Designers Who Made Disco
The nightclub has always been a fiercely creative and radical architectural typology, a new exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum argues.
Fondation Cartier Exhibition Invites You Into the Whimsical World of Architect Junya Ishigami
The Paris art museum's first solo architecture exhibition, dubbed Freeing Architecture, is on view through June 18, 2018.
Three New Books Reveal Why Postmodernism is Back
Don’t call it a comeback. Postmodernism in architecture was always already a revisitation.
