Articles of Interest
Liquid Cities
Places Journal
In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”
Concrete Utopia
Places Journal
The republic of Yugoslavia lasted barely half a century. A new exhibition reveals an architectural legacy that until now has been neglected.
Post-It Note City
Places Journal
A visit to the smart-city-in-progress at Sidewalk Toronto prompts questions about what it means to “participate” in civic design.
Untimely Futures
Places Journal
In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.
Kiruna, Forever Changing
Places Journal
The forced relocation of the northernmost city in Sweden is more than a gigantic architectural project. It is also a test for a society at the crossroads.
Rexford Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism
Places Journal
New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.
About That Noguchi Coffee Table
Places Journal
Rarely do you see the word “hilarious” in the same sentence as the word “architecture.” But happily, humor in architectural and design criticism is thriving.