“We See from Where We Stand”
A survey of artworks created in prison is informed by debates about the systemic inequities of the American criminal justice system, from the cops to the courts to the penitentiary
The Light Fantastic
In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look.
The Picassos of the American South
Mr. Edmondson earned his living by making cemetery headstones and yard decorations, though his work eventually came to the attention of the art world: In 1937, he became the first
How Do We Solve America’s Housing Crisis?
The Oscar winning 2020 film Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, has been acclaimed for painting an intimate and honest portrait of a particular subculture of American wanderers who permanently take
Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
Thomas Heatherwick: ‘The city will be a new kind of space’
Thomas Heatherwick is the urban designer behind some of the world’s most pioneering landmarks. He talks about ‘soulfulness’ in cities, ‘heart-centred’ offices – and seducing people into being together again.
The Denver Art Museum’s Gio Ponti-designed tower will reopen after a $150 million campus transformation
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has announced that its years-in-the-making $150 million campus renovation and reunification project will be fully opened to the public on October 24, 2021.
Amanda Loper wins 2021 AIA Young Architect Award
This video featuring Amanda Loper of David Baker Architects, brings you into our Birmingham practice.
The People’s Graphic Design Archive Is Rethinking How We Talk About Design History
For my graphic nerd pals.
Le Corbusier as I Knew Him
The following essay was published in 1977 in “The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier,” one of the first sizable works containing original research, archival material, and personal reflections on
Architecture’s Colonial Reckoning
Calls to “decolonize” architecture have been gaining support, but what does this actually mean?
Survey to Surveillance
The U.S.-Mexico border is not a line on the ground, but a network diagram drawn through bodies and databases.
Five Women Architects Revitalize a Giant Public-Housing Project in Rome
Corviale is one of Italy’s biggest postwar public-housing projects and, arguably, one of the most controversial. Both revered and abhorred, the complex remains a pilgrimage site for architectural schools from
Tunnel visionary: why was land artist Nancy Holt never given her due?
Holt made mesmerising works that filtered stars and vanished in the desert heat. But land art was seen as a male preserve. A new exhibition redresses the balance.
MoMA wants to cancel Philip Johnson – many who knew him do not
A gallery bearing the architect’s name also seeks to obliterate it.
Architecture in film: modernism, futurism and beyond
From modernist houses to futuristic landscapes, the built environment and the ambience it creates play a key role in visual storytelling.
Two new books about Kenneth Frampton help broaden the horizons of modern architecture
Architectural history has a tendency to cross the line into boosterism. Such was the famous contention of the historian Manfredo Tafuri, who chastised his peers for using their platform to
How this year’s Pritzker Prize winners could spark an architectural revolution
In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach—doing nothing—is an act of resistance.
The Golden Ratio, a supposed Greek invention, may have African roots
The Golden Ratio, a hallmark of Swiss design and the foundation of everything from Helvetica to Le Corbusier’s meticulous architecture, may have been imported from Africa.
It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon
A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artist’s originality or her importance.
Architects, Let’s Reaffirm Your Mission Today
ARCHITECT columnist Michael Caton wonders if firms can do good in society and do well in business—and finds the example of Danish Kurani.
Take No Prisoners
Architect Deanna Van Buren is building positive alternatives to the criminal justice system.