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Meanwhile, elsewhere…

By On 15 February, 2013 · In Architecture &, Criticism &

Although there isn’t much original content these days on Life Without Buildings, I’ve been busy writing elsewhere.

Most notably, for almost two years now I’ve been co-writing a book with Robert A.M. Stern documenting the history of the Yale School of Architecture and the contributions its alumni have made to the profession. Working on the [...]

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Design Decoded: When is a Signature not a Signature?

By On 2 February, 2013 · In Criticism &, Theory

The following post is excerpted from Design Decoded.

President Obama was in Hawaii when he signed the fiscal cliff deal in Washington D.C. Of course, it’s now common for us to send digital signatures back and forth every day, but the President of the United States doesn’t just have his [...]

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Selling Junkspace or One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Multi-Million Dollar Residential Tower

By On 1 September, 2012 · In Architecture &, Criticism &, Theory

The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine features an insightful profile of Rem Koolhaas written by former New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff. As a companion to that article, I wrote a piece on Design Decoded, Smithsonian’s blog on design [...]

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Aesthetics/Anesthetics at the Storefront for Art and Architecture

By On 15 July, 2012 · In Architecture &, Criticism &

I wrote a review for Domus of Aesthetics/Anesthetics, the current exhibition running at New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. Here’s an excerpt:

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Storefront for Art and Architecture was founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement [...]

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A re-imagining of Massimo Scolari's Dream of a Shadow

Visible Cities: Massimo Scolari at Yale

By On 14 February, 2012 · In Architecture &, Criticism &

Italo Calvino did not necessarily listen to everything Massimo Scolari said when he spoke to him about architecture, but the attention of the Italian writer was captured when he learned that the young man was…

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