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Ideas
01.30.12: Deborah Gans
Hospitality Begins at HomeOn Places, Deborah Gans visits a digital installation by Israeli artist Maya Zack and the In-House Festival in Jerusalem, and is inspired to explore the spatio-political dimensions of homeland.
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01.09.12: Jerry Herron
The Forgetting Machine: Notes Toward a History of DetroitOn Places, Jerry Herron tracks the decline and fall of his home city of Detroit, from ruin porn to the demolition of Hudson's to Henry Ford's first horseless carriage.
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12.12.11: David Heymann
The Evil, Evil Grain ElevatorOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of buildings and landscapes — and shows how even a building form as familiar as a grain elevator can come to seem evil.
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12.08.11: Reinhold Martin
Occupy: The Day AfterOn Places, Reinhold Martin explores how Occupy Wall Street might challenge the structural inequities of finance capitalism, and how architects and urbanists can contribute to the next phase of the movement
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12.01.11: Thomas Fisher
The Death and Life of Great Architecture CriticismOn Places, Tom Fisher argues that architecture criticism is ripe for bold reinvention.
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11.28.11: David Heymann
Landscape Is Our SexOn Places, David Heymann analyzes the logics — and illogics — of the idea that the relationship of a building to its landscape is — or should be — a key element of its design..
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10.24.11: David Adjaye, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jorge Otero-Pailos
On Architecture and Authorship: A ConversationOn Places, David Adjaye, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos discuss the complex relationship of architecture to authorship: Is the architect an author or service provider?
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08.02.11: Richard Powers
What Does Fiction Know?On Places, novelist Richard Powers grapples with Berlin's history in this meditation on place and narrative.
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07.25.11: Rob Walker
Implausible Futures for Unpopular PlacesOn Places Rob Walker describes the Hypothetical Development Organization, which creates fanciful renderings of imaginary developments for vacant urban sites — a new form of "architecture fiction."
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07.07.11: David Heymann
The Eastward-Moving HouseOn Places, David Heymann's "The Eastward-Moving House" — a continuation of the imaginative history of American home-building begun in J.B. Jackson's "The Westward-Moving House."
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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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09.09.09: Jonathan Massey
Five Ways to Change the WorldArchitect and educator Jonathan Massey suggests five ways to influence the built environment — and make the world a better place.
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