The Built Environment
Renovation Project
Owen Hatherley celebrates the urban residential complexes denigrated in North America as “the projects”
Eastern Promises
In Egypt, President Sisi speed-runs nearly two centuries of urban-planning ideas in service of his political agenda
The Frontier Interview—Common Accounts, “The Death Report”
Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler rethink architecture’s relationship to the inevitable
The Frontier Dozen—May 16, 2024
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, videos, or projects that deserve your attention
Names On the Land
On the “narrative struggle” that monuments and markers represent
The Frontier Interview—Virginia Hanusik
The New Orleans artist on extractive economies, resilience, and the emotional power of art
Postcards from the Edge
Organizer and writer Matt Hern reports from the new suburbs
The Frontier Interview: Jake Dow-Smith
On the web’s needless complexity and translating signals from one medium to another
The Frontier Interview: Terremoto
On creative autonomy, acknowledging labor and laborers, and building relationships that will last decades.
Seeking Fulfillment
On touring an Amazon warehouse and reading Heike Geissler’s “Seasonal Associate”
The Future Sound of London
A new anthology with predictions of London a century from now misses the voices of today’s residents.
Passing It On
Two stories about helping the next generation
The Frontier Interview: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, “Who Are We Now?”
The AI researcher on identity, sexuality, language, and paying close attention to the data