‘The Cole Porter of Literature’: Writers and Artists Remember Edmund White
In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip.
https://nytimes.com/2025/06/05/book…
The Very Gay Life of Edmund White
Remembering Edmund White.
https://nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opin…
Artificial Intelligence and City-Making: The Potential for New Synthesis
Pals Rocky Hanish and John Parman extend the discussion about AI to include urban morphology.
https://builtformjournal.org/index.…
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair
Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach existential challenges
https://theguardian.com/books/2025/…
Design Hospitality at Placewares
I just heard that Kevin Leigh Lane passed away. He was well known in design circles. I interviewed him and his then partner, Shev Rush, when they took over Placewares from the Lyndons.
https://kennethcaldwell.com/design-…
These People Used to Live Here?
Before the Chelsea Hotel got swanky, a long-term resident captured the louche building—and its iconic guests—with a black-and-white-film camera.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
My Parents Expected to Be Retired. Instead, They Are Raising My Sister’s Kids.
When grandparents are parents.
https://nytimes.com/2025/05/18/maga…
Notes From the Venice Biennale, Past and Present
Unlike professions such as medicine, accounting, or law, architecture has a high culture. By this I mean an indulgence in exhibition making, publishing, and archiving—in possessing its own rarified curators.
https://commonedge.org/notes-from-t…
Cancer Stole Her Voice. Curse Words, Children’s Books and AI Saved It
Our good friend Sonya Sotinsky was profiled on KQED. She took the tough lessons of her career as an architect to share what she learned from her cancer experience. Finding your voice has all kinds of meaning.
https://kqed.org/science/1996818/sh…
Pepe Mujica: My Generation Made a Naive Error
The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/pepe-mu…
Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)
The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park.
https://nytimes.com/2025/05/08/arts…
Learning How to Talk About Architecture on Social Media
For my communication compadres...
https://commonedge.org/learning-how…
The Interview: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
I love Ocean Vuong.
https://nytimes.com/2025/05/03/maga…
Architectural Innovations at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition: Three Modernist Landmarks
For you fans of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
https://docomomo-noca.org/features/…
In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life
When my mother needed care, we went through several places before we settled on a board & care which seemed to be the best option.
https://theguardian.com/society/ng-…
Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion
Can this be heard by my audience?
https://nybooks.com/online/2025/04/…
Caught Between Two Worlds, an Artist Prepares for His Biggest Show Yet
As Salman Toor’s work has become more politically conflicted and emotionally raw, he finds himself wondering, “What am I doing here in America?”
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/28/arts…
Altadena: Four Stories
For three weeks in January, the Eaton Fire raced through the small community of Altadena, California, destroying more than 9,000 buildings and killing eighteen people. Afterward, we invited four writers, all longtime local residents, to share memories, and photographs, of what burned, and what didn’t.
https://placesjournal.org/article/p…
The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk
As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.
https://newyorker.com/news/the-lede…
Notes to John
Yes, it's about Joan Didion.
https://airmail.news/issues/2025-4-…
Our Buildings, Our Selves, With Guests Paul Goldberger and Zach Mortice
Listen up!
https://commonedge.org/episode-3-ou…
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
This is delicious.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
An Interview with Margot Douaihy
An interview with a new mystery writer.
https://frictionlit.org/an-intervie…
Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim
The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic flux of a 25-year career, and a sense of healing.
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts…
What Do You Remember?
The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.
https://newyorker.com/culture/open-…
MYTH: “AI Governance is Just for Nerds”
Why and How Architects Can and Should Participate in A.I. Governance
https://ericjcesal.substack.com/p/m…
