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Books
02.02.12: Mitchell Schwarzer
Building After AuschwitzOn Places, Mitchell Schwarzer reviews Building After Auschwitz, the new book by historian Gabriel Rosenfeld that asks a thorny question: Is there a Jewish architecture?
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06.09.11: Adelheid Fischer
A Home Before the End of the WorldOn Places, Adelheid Fischer explores our startling ignorance of the natural world — and wonders whether this is enabling the degradation of the environment.
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05.16.11: Belmont Freeman
Kevin Roche: Architecture as EnvironmentOn Places, Belmont Freeman reviews Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment, and finds much to admire in a long career that has lately been overlooked.
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05.03.11: Adam Yarinsky
Donald Judd and the Blooming of RealityOn Places, architect Adam Yarinsky reviews Donald Judd, by David Raskin, and Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, by Marianne Stockebrand, et al.
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04.27.11: Timothy Mennel
Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community IsOn Places, Tim Mennel compares the radically different New York worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory and Jane Jacobs's Village — and comes to some provocative conclusions.
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04.25.11: Thomas J. Campanella
Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American PlanningOn Places, Thomas Campanella evaluates the complex legacy Jane Jacobs, including the ongoing marginalization of the urban planning profession.
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04.22.11: Alexandra Lange
The Anti-MonographOn Places, Alexandra Lange argues that the new monograph from Studio Gang is a version of the anti-monograph: an effort to feed the star machinery and resist it at the same time.
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04.11.11: Robert Dawson & Josh Wallaert
Public Library: An American CommonsOn Places, photographer Robert Dawson documents public libraries across the United States, emphasizing their vital — and now threatened — role as an American commons.
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04.07.11: Ray Gastil
In Motion: The Experience of TravelOn Places, Ray Gastil reviews In Motion: The Experience of Travel, the latest book by Tony Hiss.
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03.28.11: Mark Lamster
The Architectural Monograph: A DefenseOn Places, Mark Lamster asks: In a dynamic era for practice and publishing, what is the future of the architectural monograph?
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03.15.10: Robert Taylor
Words and PicturesOn Places, architect Robert Taylor reviews Fumihiko Maki's collected essays and Shigeru Ban's latest monograph.
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01.14.10: Beth Weinstein
The City's EndArchitect Beth Weinstein reviews The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by architectural historian Max Page — just in time for the season premiere of 24, which finds Jack Bauer and his fellow counter-terrorists relocated to NYC.
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11.11.09: Gavin Browning
it is what it isGavin Browning reviews it is what is is, the 1,000-page monograph of the work of the New York-based multidisciplinary design firm 2x4.
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