Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate
“The door is open,” Nikki Giovanni told me, “and if I’m saying something that you don’t like, you can go out the door. Because I’m going to say what I
Frederick Fisher and Partners’ Municipal Building is a Green Systems Champion
Santa Monica City Hall East features state-of-the-art green building systems behind its straight-laced facade.
Tribute: Richard Rogers (1933-2021)
When the author Deborah Copaken Kogan opened Richard Rogers’s sock drawer, she started to cry.
Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation
A poem is both a centripetal and centrifugal force. It concentrates and distills language at the same time that it spins off sparks of meaning.
Not Everything Is “Architecture”
Politics are currently polarized. This creates volatility and the potential for violence in the public realm. The form of political messages matters. Sometimes that form is violence, which is bad.
Michael Murphy on the Architecture of Health
It has been a surprisingly rapid ascent for MASS Design Group.
A Bold New Environmental Center Helps Redeem a Former Brownfield Site in Chicago
From our pals at Valerio Dewalt Train and Media Objectives.
On Jasper Johns
“I think that there’s a clear and strong ethics in the way in which he conducts himself, a deep respect for the viewer that is just in everything he says
My 15-Minute City: Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
I’d dreamed of living in San Francisco since I was a teenager. In my early 30s, I finally moved there from my native Michigan.
Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Legacy
The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms. What are its lessons for our current moment?
Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side
When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America’s most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, ‘He’s lost his mind.’ But he dared.