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Jacobsians and Jacobins

Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects asks “what a new generation of American socialists might learn” from New York and Washington, D.C.

Architectures of Care

Brittany Utting’s new book challenges conventional definitions of “care” within architectural practice

large skylight over a shopping space
Shopping is a Feeling

Meet Me by the Fountain, Alexandra Lange’s new book, expertly chronicles the past, present, and future of American malls

photograph depicting an oil refinery in the distance
Picking a Fight

A new book argues that architecture desperately needs fixing. But what if it needs breaking instead?

inside a web spanning 95 feet at Particular Matter(s)
Spidey Senses Tingling

At The Shed, Tomás Saraceno’s immersive Particular Matter(s) awakens the senses

the us mexico border wall, a photo on display in the new exhibition, in the pacific ocean
Fly On The Wall

A new exhibition is a testament to the conceptual resilience of “the wall”

Sprawling background of a multilayer anime architecture metropolis depicting soaring towers and lowly slums
Review Revue

AN’s 2021 in review(s): Buildings, books, video games, exhibitions, and more

Inside a white box pavilion at expo 2020 dubai
The Real Metaverse

Sand, sweat, and mirrors at Expo 2020 Dubai

an architect surveying an apartment model in cairo
Welcome Back

Cairo Modern explores a lost modernity at the Center for Architecture

the demolition of the pruitt-igoe housing complexes, one of many projects by minoru yamasaki that was ultimately demolished
Architectural Autofiction

An experimental biography of Minoru Yamasaki runs counter to the familiar—and tragic—appraisals of his career

The seagram building, a glass international-style skyscraper
Under Construction

Kiel Moe’s Unless breaks down the ecology of the Seagram Building

Installation view of a Reconstructions text over the philip johnson name plate
Off the Map

MoMA’s Reconstructions reaches toward another world

Black and white photo of thin Miami towers next to each other against the sky
Slip of the Pen

A new book about architecture and capitalism reveals the problem with today’s mode of criticism

interior photograph of a contemporary train station with a suspended decorative clock at center in Moynihan train hall
You Know You’re Here

Moynihan Train Hall is a new type of civic space for New York, a place for arriving and departing, moving and standing still

The cover of Medium Design, a splotchy red book
The Medium Middle

Keller Easterling’s Medium Design ignores the role of power in design

Sprawling background of a multilayer anime architecture metropolis depicting soaring towers and lowly slums
Days Of Future Present

ANIME ARCHITECTURE constructs the future by pulling from the past

a drawing a pedestal for Second World Postmodernisms
Ornamentation For All

Second World Postmodernisms argues the movement sprung from late socialism

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Review Revue

AN’s 2020 in review(s): Books, buildings, exhibitions, films, and more

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