Review Archives - The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/category/print/review/ The most authoritative voice on architecture and design in the United States. Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:12:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Harvard’s new book on the state of housing underscores architecture’s limits https://www.archpaper.com/2024/03/harvard-book-housing-underscores-architectures-limits/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:12:31 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=372454 The State of Housing Design | Edited by Joint Center for Housing Studies | $30.00 There’s a surefire way to rile up a neighborhood: just talk about housing. It seems

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Tiny packages, shiny houses, and the ceaseless project of desire are at the center of Nathan Fielder’s The Curse https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/nathan-fielder-the-curse-tiny-packages-shiny-houses-the-ceaseless-project-of-desire/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:43:23 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=347766 The Curse follows newlyweds Whitney Spiegel (Emma Stone) and Asher Spiegel (Nathan Fielder) on their journey to transform their “hometown” of Española, New Mexico, near Santa Fe, into a fully

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Patrick Parrish Gallery’s Tribeca swan song, Object Chandigarh, showcases furniture by Pierre Jeanneret https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/patrick-parrish-gallerys-object-chandigarh-pierre-jeanneret/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:36:11 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=347390 While the Barcelona chair is perhaps the most iconic example of furniture denoting a specific site—originally designed by Mies van der Rohe for the King and Queen of Spain, no

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The second iteration of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, curated by Tosin Oshinowo, reimagines adaptability https://www.archpaper.com/2023/11/the-second-iteration-of-the-sharjah-architecture-triennial-curated-by-tosin-oshinowo-reimagines-adaptability/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:12:55 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=346416 The Beauty of Impermanence Sharjah Architecture Triennial Sharjah, UAE Through March 10, 2024 It only takes about an hour to lose yourself in the desert. Tracking my van’s route via

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How to Build a Low-Carbon Home is an accessible and instructive guide for home-building during the climate emergency https://www.archpaper.com/2023/10/how-build-low-carbon-home-accessible-instructive-guide-home-building-climate-emergency/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:22:49 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=344180 How to Build a Low-Carbon Home Design Museum London Through March 2024 To grind down limestone and heat it with clay, to mine iron ore and power blast furnaces, and

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André Tavares examines how the work of Vitruvius relays the “symbiotic relationship” between print and the built environment https://www.archpaper.com/2023/06/andre-tavares-examines-work-vitruvius-relays-symbiotic-relationship-between-print-built-environment/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:22:15 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=338180 Vitruvius Without Text: The Biography of a Book André Tavares | gta Verlag | €26 All arts and crafts have a history, and histories must start somewhere. Around the end

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A Cooper Hewitt exhibition stages visualizations by W. E. B. Du Bois with Art Nouveau artifacts https://www.archpaper.com/2023/04/a-cooper-hewitt-exhibition-stages-visualizations-by-w-e-b-du-bois-with-art-nouveau-artifacts/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:53:58 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=335212 Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum New York Through May 29 It has been almost five years already since

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Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, explores the contested politics of supposedly empty terrain https://www.archpaper.com/2023/04/deserts-are-not-empty-edited-by-samia-henni-explores-the-contested-politics-of-supposedly-empty-terrain/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:47:27 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=334966 Deserts Are Not Empty Edited by Samia Henni | Columbia Books on Architecture and the City | $23 In December 2022 and January 2023, Deserts Are Not Empty accompanied me

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Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech organizes the work of 112 practices through images and essays https://www.archpaper.com/2023/02/inscriptions-architecture-before-speech-organizes-work-112-practices-images-essays/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:38:16 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=332518 Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech Edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder | Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Press | $60 Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech is a

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Theaster Gates transmutes loss into an acknowledgment and celebration of Black creativity at the New Museum https://www.archpaper.com/2023/02/theaster-gates-transmutes-loss-into-an-acknowledgment-and-celebration-of-black-creativity-at-the-new-museum/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:06:20 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=332102 Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces New Museum 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 Open through February 5 In “When the Battle Is Over,” the introductory essay in the

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