Books
What Defines a Queer Space?
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories records how generations of queer communities have persisted and created familial oases around the world.
Architecture
Art
Can Western Architecture Ever Be Truly Decolonial?
The Project of Independence at MoMA probes the limits of modernist construction in South Asia.
Books
The Golden Era of Cape Cod’s Bohemia
John Taylor Williams’s The Shores of Bohemia traces the formation of postwar American culture with an intimate account of the legendary summer gatherings of artists, writers, and activists at Cape Cod.
Film
They Tried to Make a Sexy Movie About the Eiffel Tower Engineer
Eiffel inadvertently paints its protagonist not as a great man worthy of scrutiny or praise, but as the Elon Musk of his day.
News
A Tall and Skinny NYC Skyscraper Is Being Compared to a Coffee Stirrer
The super tall and skinny skyscraper, affectionately dubbed “the coffee stirrer,” was built at a 24:1 height-to-width ratio.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Magic of Venice's Churches
100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon by Alejandro Merizalde features religious temples from every corner of the Italian city and its islands.
Books
Julia Morgan, California’s First Licensed Female Architect
A new biography looks at the largely forgotten architect who executed more than 700 building projects in California, including the Hearst Castle.
News
Mies van der Rohe’s Forgotten Frat House Design Is Resurrected and Repurposed
The newly unveiled 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long steel and glass building is an exemplar of Mies’s signature understated but innovative style.
Books
How Painter-Architects Brought Built Spaces to Life
Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.
News
Thousands Pledge To Egg Jeff Bezos's Mega-Yacht As It Passes Through Rotterdam Bridge
“We don’t just take [Rotterdam] apart for the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire,” said the protest’s organizers, who oppose dismantling the historic bridge.
Books
A Teenager’s Dreamy Art Deco Bedroom From 1929
A new book reconstructs a unique teen bedroom from 1929 and resurrects Joseph Urban’s far-reaching but now-forgotten influence on modern American design.
Books
The Politics of “Santa Fe Style” Modernist Architecture
A new project looks at the modernist influences on the city’s residential designs.