The article discusses the aesthetics of dismemberment in Japanese robotics, which involves the excision and reconstitution of initially organic wholes into artificial and idealized functional parts. This aesthetic is related to the internal _...Read More_

"As Kimmelman’s employer keeps reminding us with googly-eyed headlines, rent is soaring. The city’s pandemic-era eviction moratorium has been lifted. Our new mayor is a cop who seems to disdain unhoused people. And the architects of the _...Read More_

>"Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully _...Read More_

"The Motagua Fault is an active, moving fault that extends across Guatemala and is part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The confluence of geological forces which meet at this fault pull the _...Read More_

>"Architect and Goldsmiths, University of London professor Eyal Weizman tells the Culture Summit Abu Dhabi that creatives could work together to achieve justice"

“Architecture has a more definite impact on the world” than language, is how Van den Broeck explains her undertaking to one of many bemused sources. “Besides, buildings have at least a shot at eternity. I don’t have any illusions about my _...Read More_

>"St. Louis, MO, United States"

Great photograph and awesome write up. It’s crazy to think that they were only open for about 28 years before 9/11. Crazy how vacant it is. Hard to imagine anywhere in new york not being crowded.

MODERN AMERICAN MASCULINITY IS about mastery and control: control over one’s destiny and that of ‘lesser’ men and women. The late Notorious B.I.G. summarised this vision of manhood succinctly when he rapped _...Read More_

“To what extent is it possible to apply pressure to the capitalist class through museums?”

>"One architect rewrote the history of modernism from the margins of Europe –
and became the most important brutalist you’ve never heard of."

>"Bas Smets’ project, featuring trees and a cooling system, aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly space around Paris landmark"

>"The father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, turns two hundred this month, but his legacy now comes with asterisks."

"For Disturbing the View, his performance at the Whitney last summer, the artist Dave McKenzie washed some of the museum’s floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows twice weekly in the afternoon."

"The team hopes to simulate how visitors would have experienced the space and gain a stronger understanding of the motivation behind Roman designs"