Title: Kengo Kuma Selected Works Author: Botond Bognar Publication Date: June 2005 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 1-56898-468-5 One of the difficult aspects of Architectural Book reviews, particularly of monographs, is that they, like Art Books, are about the...

Bad: Pataki Cancels Freedom Center. I mean, who saw that coming? I'm outraged that the discussion of international freedom, and the context of terrorism, is being removed from the Trade Center site. Worse:AIA discussion of the role the Freedom...

Continuing our theme of airplane disaster fantasy, we now turn to the space version: the new reimaginedBattlestar Galactica on the sci-fi channel. Like Lost, the show takes place almost entirely in a place free of architecture. Lost is on...

Somewhere at a previous writing job, I mentioned the possibility of compiling a list of about two dozen celebrity-architect-designed luxury condominium buildings in New York, all between 20 and 40something units. It's a moment, with many similarities to when...

Several months ago, I began a blog entirely devoted to my love, architecture. Like Warhol's wife (his tape recorder), I am always accompanied by cities, by how the density of building (or nondensity of buildings) brings people together in...

"It's funny that this all arises over freedom," said Mr. Burke, who lost his brother in the attack. "Isn't it a bit of a seismic anomaly that the exercise of freedom has a segment of the very families who...

Our friends at Curbed have adequately documented the history of the weirdness of creating an address like "One Kenmare Square" on a street that is clearly labeled "Lafayette". They also picked up a few of the typical reactions from...

Living near the third Richard Meier apartment building on the West Side Highway, at Charles Street, affords the unique opportunity to take in the previous day's construction work while eating breakfast. The building differs from its older twin siblings...

I don't like the Sculpture for Living. But please, don't take my word for it. Our friend and reader Renee Turman, Interior Designer, comments on the latest advertisement for Sculpture for Living, showing a rendering of unit 16A, after...

I am normally all over all over a story about a newly constructed artwork by Robert Smithson, but I am in the Pacific time zone, seeing some of Los Angeles' star buildings close up. I checked Curbed and they...

Las Vegas is stripping away its fabulousness and trying a bit of modernism/urbanism. It's a free-for-all, in very many ways, which makes this project unique from the other free-for-alls. Of note: 1. The developer thinks that architecture is a...

One of our favorite televised spaces is the interior of an airplane. The camera transforms the insipid interior of a first-class cabin into something magnificent. The other thing we like to watch, as a welcome respite to a day...

I've been saying this all along, whenever someone asks me for my professional opinion about the Ground Zero Memorial Master Plan, or whatever it's called: that the Master Plan is of almost no significance. The buildings will show up...

The Times helpfully points us in the direction of shows related to Gordon Matta-Clark's work Fake Estates. The reporting on the leftover tax bills is particularly amusing, along with some insights into what we might learn of the artist's...

The ever-consice Curbed did a wonderful précis about all the development in the Meatline district of Manhattan. Between this and Calatrava's vertical High Line, how is a managing director of Goldman Sachs supposed to make a choice?...

Technology extends the story. Satellite pictures taken from NOAA are remixed with Goole Earth, and voila, useful information. In the afterward for The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell discusses the tendency for our information-laden lives to require word-of-mouth in order...

Tropolism means appreciating urbanism wherever it is, in whatever form, even though it may not be suited to our taste. We prefer super-dense cities like New York and Tokyo and London to quasi-dense second-tier urban patches like Chicago and...