Thinking architecture
Trouble with Terminators
Places Journal
Why not make buildings today as they once were made? This is actually a really good, really radical question.
Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards
Places Journal
The world’s most ambitious “smart city” project is here. Should we worry that New York City is becoming an experimental lab?
The Arab City
Places Journal
Today there is no better context in which to investigate the complexities of global practice in architecture than that of the rapidly changing Arab city.
You (Still) Have to Pay for the Public Life
Places Journal
Half a century ago Charles Moore was a rising architect and Ivy League academic. He was also the first in the field to look seriously at Disneyland — and he liked what he saw.
The Multilevel Metropolis
Places Journal
Urban skyways have radically altered the form and spatial logic of cities around the world, from Minneapolis to Calgary to Hong Kong.
Makerspace: Towards a New Civic Infrastructure
Places Journal
Makerspaces are at once an emerging architectural and institutional typology and a manifestation of the so-called sharing economy. But will they last?
Cloud and Field
Places Journal
On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age. We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars?