Housing Can Help Cultivate Connections. Here’s How To Do It Right.
Placing compatible uses together can add convenience, support social encounters, and build lasting bonds. Just look at East Oakland’s Tassafaronga Village.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects?
The towering and divisive figure who transformed architecture published his manifesto for modernism in 1923.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness
The Finnish artist is quietly taking notes as the people around her lose their shit.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
A. G. Sulzberger on the Battles Within and Against the New York Times
The paper’s publisher discusses bias in reporting, the Times’ financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and the war in Ukraine.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
What is the point of profit?
Because "to make shareholders rich" isn't good enough anymore.
https://elysian.press/p/what-is-the…
Richard Saul Wurman: “There’s a Louis Kahn Cult, and I’m a Member!”
Dan Klyn, who teaches information architecture at the University of Michigan, is currently researching and writing a biography entitled Richard Saul Wurman’s 5 Lives.
https://commonedge.org/richard-saul…
Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people
In the fall of 2022, a German court heard an unusual case. It was a civil lawsuit that grew out of a feud on Twitter about whether transgender people were victims of the Holocaust.
https://theconversation.com/histori…
Artist as Art Form
In work that segues from gorgeous fields of color to everyday inanities, Daniel Eatock defies categories, proving he has one muse: the process itself.
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
Joan Didion, the Death of R.F.K. and the Solution to a Decades-Old Mystery
Over 40 years later, “The White Album” is regarded as a masterpiece of nonfiction and a pre-eminent account of the ’60s as a cultural era.
https://nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opin…
Why the Internet Hates Gay People
A conversation with Alexander Monea about his recent book on the history of search engines, content moderation, AI, and the ways they form biases against queerness.
https://thenation.com/article/cultu…
What is Queer Space?
Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality.
https://metropolismag.com/viewpoint…
Trans activism isn’t just about pronouns and bathrooms. It’s about class struggle
The new field of ‘trans Marxism’ teaches us that we shouldn’t be fighting for inclusion but for liberation.
https://opendemocracy.net/en/oureco…
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existential Marxism Shows How We Can Make Our Own History
And now a deeper dive.
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/jean-pa…
What Should We Do About Problematic Monuments?
Two views on controversial public art in an age of social change.
https://altaonline.com/dispatches/a…
What Susan Sontag wanted for women
A new collection reveals a world view haunted by death — and the prospect of liberation.
https://newyorker.com/books/page-tu…
Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.
Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it?
https://nytimes.com/2023/05/23/maga…
Consider the 15 mph City
Walkable urbanism needs local mobility. We need to turn our idea of regional transit inside out, making local access as important a goal for it as geographic reach and point-to-point speed.
https://commonedge.org/consider-the…
A Drawing, Not a Picture
If nature takes its revenge but no one is around to witness it, will it be beautiful?
https://newyork.substack.com/p/a-dr…
“Tight and Small and Figurative”: Tom Wesselmann’s Early Collages
Susan Davidson, editor of the forthcoming monograph on the Great American Nudes, a series of works by Tom Wesselmann, explores the artist’s early experiments with collage, tracing their development from humble beginnings to the iconic series of paintings.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2023…
Joan Baez Is Still Doing Beautiful, Cool Stuff
At eighty-two, the folk singer has a new book of drawings and sleeps on a mattress in a tree.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
On Trans Joy
There’s so much I want to say to my doppelgänger. But she’s gone.
https://guernicamag.com/on-trans-jo…
Back to the Future
At the National Theatre, on London’s Southbank, a new restaurant named after Brutalist pioneer Sir Denys Lasdun has been remastered for the 21st century by the Guild of St Luke.
https://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability
We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Mass Support
Dutch architect John Habraken saw the potential of industrialized building to foster flexibility in housing design and increase inhabitants’ agency in decision-making about their own homes.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
Everything Is (Not) Architecture: Environmental Design and Architecture’s Slippery Slope
There’s no shortage of slippery slopes in the architectural lexicon: “architectural” and “architectonic” hover near the top of the list.
https://commonedge.org/everything-i…
Did OpenAI just have its ‘App Store’ moment?
OpenAI’s plugins could represent the second major phase in the rise of AI chatbots.
https://fastcompany.com/90870842/di…
