My Bookmarks
The Irrational Exuberance of Rem Koolhaas
Places Journal
The architect’s career embodies the inevitable contradictions in trying to marry art and capitalism, radicalism and pragmatism, icon-making and city-making.
Zombies and Ghosts
Places Journal
In 21st-century finance capitalism, residential buildings are valued less as homes than as investments. The unsettling results are underpopulated cities and bleak unfinished suburbs.
The Trouble with Consumption
Places Journal
The contradictions between capitalist needs and ecological imperatives are impossible to ignore. How might the tenets of alternative hedonism foster new mandates for radical political change?
The Crumple and the Scrape
Places Journal
What bodies, and which desires, do you build into your designs or your criticism?
Willful Waters
Places Journal
Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.
Isthmus: On the Panama Canal Expansion
Places Journal
The shockwave of Panama Canal expansion is reshaping cities throughout the Americas. We need to look through the lens of landscape, not logistics.
Beyond Google Earth
Places Journal
Satellite imagery might seem neutral, but it is constructed by systems which not only present but also transform the raw visual data.
Havana: Nostalgia Is a Dangerous Business
Places Journal
The recent literature on Havana perpetuates misleading ideas about the the city’s architectural character and urban politics.
Unbuilding Gender
Places Journal
What might the abstract and architectural offer in terms of transgender representation? We can start by looking at the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.