
Let It Grow
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world
An argument for preserving the intimacy, resilience, and dynamism created in postwar Tokyo—and exporting it across the world
On the definition of photography, sensing rather than seeing landscapes, and museums as drivers of sustainability and community
On learning to think about exhibitions, not just art
On sufficiency and upfront carbon, through Lloyd Alter’s new book
In Egypt, President Sisi speed-runs nearly two centuries of urban-planning ideas in service of his political agenda
Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler rethink architecture’s relationship to the inevitable
Annotated links to twelve stories, buildings, videos, or projects that deserve your attention
On the “narrative struggle” that monuments and markers represent
The New Orleans artist on extractive economies, resilience, and the emotional power of art
Organizer and writer Matt Hern reports from the new suburbs
On the web’s needless complexity and translating signals from one medium to another
The Built Environment
On creative autonomy, acknowledging labor and laborers, and building relationships that will last decades.