When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial

The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new

Tending Building

To tend a building is to design in consonance with inevitable change — and to understand this change as a desirable expression of material properties, site dynamics, inter-species coexistence, and

Not Having to Worry about Proportion, Harmony, and Beauty Is a Cop-Out

Even within the world of design media, it was easy to miss the news: In late January, Notre Dame’s School of Architecture announced that Peter Pennoyer, a New York–based architect

One of America’s Funniest, Gayest Writers Is Finally Becoming Famous

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Spencer Finch with Ann C. Collins

For more than thirty years, Finch has chased the evanescence of experience, deconstructing the physics of perception and rebuilding it into work that rebalances the way we see while underscoring