“I Grew Up Where Architecture Was Designed to Oppress”: Wandile Mthiyane on Social Impact and Learning from South Africa
Q&A with Wandile Mthiyane.
Mark Bradford Reveals New Paintings Quarantined in a Grain Tower
Mark Bradford reflects on the enforced solitude of lockdown in three new paintings at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles.
Architectural Workers
Architect and educator Peggy Deamer talks with editor Nancy Levinson about her life as an activist, cofounding The Architecture Lobby, and about the rise of labor consciousness in the design
Douglas Stuart Reads The Englishman
I loved Douglas Stuart’s first novel, Shuggie Bain. In the Sept 14, 2020 issue of The New Yorker you can find his most recent story. It is a treat to
Design Stream Evolves
Dear Friends. We are planning to evolve the content we share with you each week. Seems like the times demand it! So, the current plan is to share more articles
The End of the Beginning
This week I want to share my pal Anne Kenner’s memoir that is also about our times.
Ava Duvernay Interviews Angela Davis On This Moment And What Came Before
Perhaps you have seen Amy Sherald’s cover for Vanity Fair that features a powerful portrait of Breonna Taylor. Ta-Neshi Coates is this month’s guest editor. He wrote the piece entitled
The Amy Sherald Effect
It is worth going back a year to read Peter Schjeldahl’s piece on artist Amy Sherald.
The Winding Saga of the Restoration of the Narkomfin, an Icon of Soviet Constructivism
The building in central Moscow, which pioneered an experimental communitarian lifestyle but had fallen into severe disrepair, has been restored courtesy of its mastermind’s architect offspring.
A brief history of opposition branding, a tradition as American as apple pie
Opposition branding a longstanding American tradition.