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Unforgetting Women Architects
Places Journal
It’s time to write women architects back into the history of architecture — starting with Wikipedia.
Why Architects Need Feminism
Places Journal
Are we really ready to be post-feminist? The case for next-wave feminism in architecture — and a better professional culture.
Black Capitalism and the City
Places Journal
Balancing business demands and the desire to bolster African American communities, Black-owned insurance companies of the 20th century were caught in an actuarial double bind.
The Importance of the Personal
Places Journal
Writer and curator Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler revolutionized the architectural exhibit, making it speak to regular citizens. In this, as in much else, she was ahead of her time.
A House for the Struggle
Places Journal
The history of the Black press in Chicago can be traced through two pivotally important media sites.
Dystopia’s Ghost
Places Journal
The remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista provokes troubling questions about colonialism and nationalism, and about the already fraught relationship between architecture and power.
Dear Yasmeen
Places Journal
Aida Camp in Bethlehem is the most heavily teargassed place on the planet. But it’s where a group of activists, educators, and designers is building a new kindergarten with a progressive, arts-centered curriculum.
A Nation of Walls
Places Journal
An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants and political legacies of “segregation walls,” unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in American neighborhoods.
Relearning the Social: Architecture and Change
Places Journal
The MoMA exhibition Small Scale, Big Change reinforces the museum’s focus on design as an agent of change.
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.
Bookshelf: Summer 2024
Places Journal
Recent books on architecture and democracy, the right to housing, race and public monuments, the search for a forgotten woman architect, and more.
Disabling Modernism
Places Journal
During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.
Tree Thinking
Places Journal
Trees have served as models of intellectual inquiry and as sites of religious and civic deliberation. Now they are inspiring deeper forms of ecological investigation.
Landscape as Resistance in the West Bank
Places Journal
Under mounting political and ecological stress, environmentalists in the Palestinian village of Battir are working to protect a 4,000-year-old agricultural landscape.
Bookshelf: Spring 2025
Places Journal
Recent books on London housing estates, design activism, the legal rights of rivers, makeshift cities, urban edgelands, and more.
Bookshelf: Fall 2024
Places Journal
Recent books on river ecosystems, histories of modern architecture, environmental origins of apartheid, the urban condition, and more.
Mysteriously Handcuffed to History
Places Journal
MoMA’s exhibition on architectures of decolonization in South Asia is problematic but timely — a much-needed catalyst for the preservation of valuable mid-century buildings.
A Genealogy of Colors
Places Journal
In Chiapas, a Mayan textile tradition was disappearing until an artist helped local weavers relearn Indigenous methods. This is the crux and challenge of socially engaged creative practice.