When Modernism Meets Local Resistance: Housing and Urban Friction in Latin America
Modern housing was one of the places where modernism made its boldest promise: that architecture could reshape not only the city, but the way people lived within it.
https://archdaily.com/1041759/when-…
The Man Who Wrote Too Well
Reyner Banham was not only a scholar but also a prodigiously productive journalist. Consider his remarkable analysis of a pioneering crash-test dummy.
https://placesjournal.org/article/f…
How Else Could You Get Out: William Kent and the Zipper
Eggs are no longer eggs. Eggs are meant to be containers for metamorphosis, and it is essential to the eggness of the egg that the creature inside be able to break out when it’s mature.
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/05/ar…
How Courtyard Blocks Promote Social Connection
The courtyard block’s ability to create simultaneously strong public and private realms is the genius of its form.
https://commonedge.org/how-courtyar…
Folded Paper: A Decade Inside the Infosphere
Everything that used to live on different sides of different sheets: work and play, public and private, performance and confession, friend and audience, real and rendered, has been folded into the same plane.
https://rockyhanish.medium.com/fold…
This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential
The 89-year-old Buddhist nun teaches the power of agreeing with your anxiety, instead of trying to run from it.
https://nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opin…
Cy Twombly, From Intimate Angles
In photos by his wife, Tatiana Franchetti, whose negatives were discovered by his granddaughter, we see more personal sides to the 20th-century master.
https://nytimes.com/2026/05/13/arts…
Debris of Separation
Two new museums, and the elephant in the room.
https://nyra.nyc/articles/debris-of…
If Everybody’s Using AI, What’s An AI Design Studio For?
AI systems today raise questions that legacy drafting and modeling software never raised about authorship, about what design intent means, and about whose aesthetic histories are encoded in training data, which forces us to reconsider the role of the student, the professor, design tools, and even authority.
https://commonedge.org/if-everybody…
Opinion on parametricism
Parametricism can never become a dominant architecture style now that the forces of capitalism are no longer interested in the lives of the masses, writes Douglas Spencer.
https://dezeen.com/2026/05/11/dougl…
The Trouble With Architectural Publishing
During the 1970s, Postmodernism briefly put architecture on the front page of Time and caught the attention of many who had never considered how buildings change cities and people.
https://commonedge.org/the-trouble-…
Open and shut case
Much of Geoffrey Bawa’s design is about the interplay between interior space and exterior setting.
https://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation
A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests.
https://theguardian.com/music/2026/…
Why Do We Want to Float? The Psychology of Lightness in Architecture
In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth.
https://archdaily.com/1040611/why-d…
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with Charles M. Schultz
If one were to make a tally of artists who have the longevity to work for more than half a century, it would be a short list. Dorothea Rockburne would be on it. She’d also be the first to say, “Who cares?”
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/04/ar…
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret
It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
6 Famously Controversial Works of Art
Called indecent or worse upon their debut, these pieces pushed audiences to reconsider what makes an artwork worthy of public consumption.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
A Conversation With James Wines: “Put Art Where You Least Expect It”
Wines describes himself as an “environmental artist,” which hints at the probing and incessantly curious nature of his careerlong explorations.
https://commonedge.org/a-conversati…
Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide
A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.
https://placesjournal.org/article/o…
Orlando Reade and Ariana Reines
A conversation about art, revolution, and the role of poetry in an age of catastrophe.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2…
Hunky Jesus (BFI Flare 2026) — Balm For The Soul
Documentaries often leave audiences with negative feelings. Fear, anger, despair. Feelings that we need to face in order to enact action and change with authoritarianism on the rise across the globe. But in the age of constant doomscrolling, the effects become numbing. Trust Hunky Jesus to offer an alternative: enacting change through laughter, love and community.
https://filmhounds.co.uk/2026/03/29…
Lucy Sante on Collage: ‘You Have to Kill One Thing to Make Another.’
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
https://nytimes.com/2026/04/01/arts…
An AI Strategy Isn’t Enough.
Why You Need to Rethink Strategy in the Age of AI.
https://ericjcesal.substack.com/p/a…
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights.
https://theguardian.com/books/2026/…
Trump’s Proposed White House Expansion Debases Classical Architecture
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger is one of many who have raised their voices in alarm at the way President Trump is proposing to alter and add to the White House.
https://commonedge.org/trumps-propo…
