Nikil Saval Nowhere But Up In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life. June 8, 2024
Martin Filler Before the Wrecking Ball Swung A new volume of photographs taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey captures the program’s wide influence on architectural culture. November 9, 2023
Nawal Arjini Look Up! In the original plan for their book Changing New York, Berenice Abbott and her partner, Elizabeth McCausland, refused to romanticize the “city of the future.” June 22, 2023
Martin Filler The Gilder Age The architecture of the American Museum of Natural History’s new addition is as oppressively weighty as its exhibitions are spellbinding. May 22, 2023
Martin Filler The Architect and the Rock Star Two new books of personal photographs, one by Phyllis Lambert, the other by Patti Smith, have thematic congruities but markedly different tones. April 15, 2023
Nawal Arjini Democracy in Concrete An exhibition of postcolonial architecture in South Asia looks back with nostalgia at modernism’s promise of social progress. June 26, 2022
Atul Dev Modi’s Folly His citizens are dying in thousands for lack of basic medical care, yet India’s leader is pressing ahead with a self-aggrandizing makeover of New Delhi. May 10, 2021
Michael Govan The Redesign of LACMA: An Exchange The CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art debates the architectural critic’s evaluation of his institution’s renovation. October 23, 2020
Joseph Giovannini The Demolition of LACMA Asked recently at a dinner party what he thought of the new building design, Frank Gehry simply draped a napkin over his head. October 2, 2020
Martin Filler Trump’s Towering Folly on Federal Architecture The effective ban on modern architecture commissioned by the US government that Trump proposes is horrifyingly reminiscent of Hitler’s insistence that public buildings in the Third Reich hew to the Classical tradition. February 19, 2020