Reading In Progress
Seattle Central Library: Civic Architecture in the Age of Media
Places Journal
In the Seattle Public Library, Rem Koolhaas and OMA work to transform architecture into media interface.
A Short History of American Urban Exceptionalism
Places Journal
American urban development has long pursued its own distinctive course — an urbanism without fixed limits, with endlessly extendable boundaries.
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.