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Frei Otto’s Airborne Architecture
Bettmann/CorbisFrei Otto with his model of an arctic city under an air conditioned container structure, 1971 Over the four decades since the Pritzker Architecture Prize was founded, its jury has taken...
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Gaudí’s Great Temple
1. Although sacred structures of all sorts have been central to every culture throughout history, religious architecture has attained even greater importance in times of social upheaval. This was...
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The Rush of Berlin
Fox Europa Produktion/Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, University of CologneAdvertising photocollage for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt, 1927 Few modern urban settings have exerted a stronger...
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In the NYR Daily, Martin Filler writes, “Few modern urban settings have exerted a stronger grip on the popular imagination than Weimar Berlin, typically presented as a nonstop freak show of grotesque...
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Amazing Building Adventures!
Matthias GnehmMatthias Gnehm: Die kopierte Stadt (The Copied City), 2014; click on image to enlarge Constructed of sturdy materials and meant to last decades, even centuries, architecture may seem to...
View ArticleArchitecture in Comic-Strip Form
On the NYR Daily, Martin Filler writes, “Constructed of sturdy materials and meant to last decades, even centuries, architecture may seem to have little in common with comics, which are printed on...
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The Man Who Shaped Tomorrow
The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NYTea service with tray designed by Peter Muller-Munk, 1931 Among the dozen useful masterpieces chosen by the US Postal Service for its 2011 series of...
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Renzo Piano’s Hidden Masterpiece
Michel Denancé/Renzo Piano Building WorkshopThe roof of Renzo Piano’s Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, behind the historic façade to which it is connected, Paris, 2014 Last fall, while le tout Paris and...
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Faith in Good Taste
Dean KaufmanThe River building at Grace Farms, New Canaan, Connecticut The United States—mother country of new religions—has always been prone to new forms of sacred architecture, in purpose as well as...
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The Original Wagner
The Morgan Library & MuseumCostume designs for Der Ring des Nibelungen by Carl Emil Doepler, Berlin, 1889 Some devotees of Richard Wagner have suggested, not wholly in jest, that the best way to...
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Living Happily Ever After
Robert Adams/Fraenkel Gallery, San FranciscoColorado Springs, Colorado, 1968; photograph by Robert Adams from his 1974 book The New West, to be reissued by Steidl this April. His exhibition ‘Around the...
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On the NYR Daily, Martin Filler writes, “Constructed of sturdy materials and meant to last decades, even centuries, architecture may seem to have little in common with comics, which are printed on...
View ArticleSilver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk
In the NYR Daily, Martin Filler writes, “Among the dozen useful masterpieces chosen by the US Postal Service for its 2011 series of stamps honoring American industrial design pioneers is the Normandie...
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The Builder of Jungles
Jill Raggett/jillraggett.tumblr.comEdmundo Cavanellas Residence, Petropolis, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer with landscape design by Roberto Burle Marx, 1954 In our ecologically conscious times,...
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Tales of Three Cities
Parisienne de Photographie/Princeton Architectural PressIntersection of rue de Seine and rue de l’Échaudé, circa 1924 by Eugène Atget (left), 1997 by Christopher Rauschenberg (right), from the new...
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A Miracle in New York Harbor
Timothy Schenck/The Trust for Governors IslandWest 8’s Discovery and Outlook Hills, with the Statue of Liberty in the distance, Governors Island, New York, 2016 New York City’s High Line of 2003-2013—a...
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The Diva of Delusion
Qwerty Films/Pathé Pictures International/Paramount PicturesHugh Grant, Lloyd Hutchinson, Meryl Streep, and Simon Helberg in Stephen Frears’s Florence Foster Jenkins, 2016 At select gatherings of...
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The Quiet Power of Maya Lin
Tim HursleyThe Riggio-Lynch Chapel, designed by Maya Lin for the Children’s Defense Fund, Haley Farm, Clinton, Tennessee, 2004; from Maya Lin: Topologies 1. Older artists who struggle futilely for...
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A Higher Form of High-Rise
Michael Moran/OTTOAlexander Gorlin Architects’ Boston Road Supportive Housing (2013-2016), Bronx, New York The finest apartment building completed recently in New York City is in several respects far...
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Building Dreams and Nightmares
Metropolis BooksR. Buckminster Fuller’s plan for a dome over Manhattan, 1961 Although America long ago had a Virginia architect as president—Thomas Jefferson—never until this year had someone reached...
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