Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable
Insurers have figured out that risk is too high in parts of California. We need to re-conceive how people are housed, and fast.
Mar 12, 2025 / Column / Kate Wagner
Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game
The artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also a comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.
Mar 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Will Fenstermaker
The Real Problem With Trump’s Cheesy Neoclassical Building Fetish The Real Problem With Trump’s Cheesy Neoclassical Building Fetish
Sure, it’s a dog whistle for “retvrn” types and the results are tacky—but that’s not the worst part.
Feb 12, 2025 / Column / Kate Wagner
The Dubious Return of the Brutalists The Dubious Return of the Brutalists
Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue.
Feb 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook
Trump Will Not Make Architecture Great Again Trump Will Not Make Architecture Great Again
Last term, his ill-informed embrace of “traditional” aesthetics fanned the flames of the culture wars. This time, he’s poised to do even more damage.
Jan 7, 2025 / Kate Wagner
The Brutalist and the Hidden Work of Architecture "The Brutalist" and the Hidden Work of Architecture
A film about survival, creativity, the hypocrisies of high art, The Brutalist tells a story about an architect who does not exploit and manipulate others to achieve his grand visi...
Dec 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wagner
In the Zone of the Rich In the Zone of the Rich
In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the wealthy.
Nov 26, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vanessa Ogle
Everyone Needs to Disavow Neom Everyone Needs to Disavow Neom
Now that they know about the staggering number of deaths the Saudi megaproject has caused, architects have absolutely no more excuses.
Nov 7, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
Want to Build Worker Power? Ask an Architect. Want to Build Worker Power? Ask an Architect.
You don’t have to wield a T-square to benefit from the field’s first collective bargaining agreement in decades.
Sep 30, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
The Gifts of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) The Gifts of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)
The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing.
Sep 26, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner