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Brigitte Lacombe
Martin Filler’s latest book is Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin, a collection of his writing on architecture in these pages. (November 2023)
The Neotraditionalist
The architect Robert A. M. Stern is America's most vociferous and successful exponent of a Classicism that would be considered anachronistic in much of the rest of the world.
Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture
by Robert A.M. Stern with Leopoldo Villardi
November 2, 2023 issue
Too Good for Hollywood
Despite her long career on stage and screen—from an Oscar nomination to the blacklist—Aline MacMahon never became a household name.
Aline MacMahon: Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
by John Stangeland
June 22, 2023 issue
The Architect of Subtraction
Adolf Loos’s radical designs pared down architecture to its most basic elements.
Ornament and Crime: Thoughts on Design and Materials
by Adolf Loos, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
Essays on Adolf Loos
by Christopher Long
The Looshaus
by Christopher Long
Adolf Loos: Works and Projects
by Ralf Bock, with photographs by Philippe Ruault
The Private Adolf Loos
by Claire Beck Loos, translated from the German by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders, and edited by Carrie Paterson
Adolf Loos: The Last Houses
by Christopher Long
Adolf Loos on Trial
by Christopher Long
April 6, 2023 issue
Whips and Vines
Recent books and exhibitions reveal that behind its undulating lines and swirling excesses, Art Nouveau was far more complex and nuanced than we once believed.
Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young
an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 8–November 12, 2022
Art Nouveau Architecture
by Anne Anderson
Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914
edited by Katherine M. Kuenzli, translated from the French and German by Elizabeth Tucker
Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves
an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, November 18, 2022–May 21, 2023; and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, June 22, 2023–January 7, 2024
Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism
catalog of the exhibition edited by David A. Hanks, with contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Sarah D. Coffin, Isabelle Gournay, Philippe Thiébaut, Georges Vigne, Alisa Chiles, and Yao-Fen You
Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation
by Charlotte Ashby
December 22, 2022 issue
Xanadu’s Architect
Despite designing over seven hundred buildings, the pioneering female architect Julia Morgan is now best known for a single, extremely eccentric commission: San Simeon, the estate of the legendary newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst.
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect
by Victoria Kastner, with photography by Alexander Vertikoff
Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon: Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance
by Gordon L. Fuglie, Jeffrey Tilman, Karen McNeill, Johanna Kahn, Elizabeth McMillian, Kirby William Brown, and Victoria Kastner
September 22, 2022 issue
Burkina Faso’s Master Builder
Africa's first Pritzker Prize winner, Francis Kéré, has a small yet remarkably original and cohesive body of work and a commitment to fostering social and democratic values through architecture.
Momentum of Light
by Iwan Baan and Francis Kéré
May 12, 2022 issue
A Garden City in Queens
After nearly a century Sunnyside Gardens remains a model of how to create and sustain affordable urban housing.
Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb
by Jeffrey A. Kroessler, with illustrations by Laura Heim
November 18, 2021 issue
Hollywood’s Master Builder
The African-American architect Paul R. Williams channeled the glamorous but breezy spirit of the Golden Age of Hollywood in designs that allowed his clients and the public to imagine themselves in fantasies akin to those spun out by the great movie studios.
Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style
by Karen E. Hudson, with photography by Benny Chan and a foreword by Michael S. Smith
Paul R. Williams
by Marc Appleton, Stephen Gee, and Bret Parsons
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View
by Janna Ireland
Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
a documentary film directed by Royal Kennedy Rodgers and Kathy McCampbell Vance
October 21, 2021 issue
Planning an Aryan Paradise
The Nazis had ambitious plans for reshaping Norwegian architecture and infrastructure.
Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
by Despina Stratigakos
Legacies of the Nazi Camps in Norway: Falstad 1941–49
by Trond Risto Nilssen and Jon Reitan
Kathe—Always Been in Norway
by Espen Søbye, translated from the Norwegian by Kerri Pierce, with an introduction by Sarah Wildman
May 13, 2021 issue
Life in a Glass House
What went wrong between Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Dr. Edith Farnsworth over the six years they worked to create the Farnsworth house?
Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
by Alex Beam
Edith Farnsworth’s Country House
an exhibition at the Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, July 1, 2020–November 14, 2021
February 11, 2021 issue
Eileen Gray’s Infinite Possibilities
Eileen Gray
an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, February 29–October 28, 2020. (The gallery is temporarily closed, and will reopen on October 13.)
Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work
by Peter Adam
Eileen Gray: E.1027, 1926–1929
by Wilfried Wang, Peter Adam, and others
Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun
by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierżawska
In Conversation with Eileen Gray
a documentary film by Michael Pitiot
Gray Matters
a documentary film by Marco Orsini
The Price of Desire
a film by Mary McGuckian
September 24, 2020 issue
Modernism, Inc.
Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism
by Nicholas Adams
April 23, 2020 issue
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