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Falling Short

Harvard’s new book on the state of housing underscores architecture’s limits

Get Real

Tiny packages, shiny houses, and the ceaseless project of desire are at the center of Nathan Fielder’s The Curse

Ex Nihilo

Patrick Parrish Gallery’s Tribeca swan song, Object Chandigarh, showcases furniture by Pierre Jeanneret

More Architects Should Get Lost in the Desert

The second iteration of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, curated by Tosin Oshinowo, reimagines adaptability

Straw, Wood, and Stone

How to Build a Low-Carbon Home is an accessible and instructive guide for home-building during the climate emergency

Vitruvius in Circulation

André Tavares examines how the work of Vitruvius relays the “symbiotic relationship” between print and the built environment

Historic Data Portraits

A Cooper Hewitt exhibition stages visualizations by W. E. B. Du Bois with Art Nouveau artifacts

Already Full of Life

Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, explores the contested politics of supposedly empty terrain

Ambient Asterism

Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech organizes the work of 112 practices through images and essays

Elevating the Everyday

Theaster Gates transmutes loss into an acknowledgment and celebration of Black creativity at the New Museum

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Uptown, Downtown, Crosstown

The Intimate City shares essays by Michael Kimmelman about his walks through pandemic-era New York City

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Green Machines

In Parks for Profit, Kevin Loughran explores the relationship between postindustrial parks and real estate development

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Ahead of Her Time

A new book about Lina Bo Bardi showcases recent engagements with the architect’s all-inclusive work

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My Deconstructivists

Joseph Giovannini’s Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a deeply researched paean to the architects who left Euclidian geometry behind

The $2 Billion Question

Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed

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A “Modern Eclectic”

Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller celebrates the output of this multihyphenate creative

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Theory of the Generous Void

Pier Paolo Tamburelli’s new book explores why Bramante’s work matters today

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“The Cathedrals of Our Times”

At the Met, the first posthumous show of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photography showcases their influential oeuvre

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