01.30.12:
Deborah Gans
Hospitality Begins at Home
On 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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10.03.11: Alexandra Lange & Mark Lamster
Lunch with the Critics: Supertall
On Places, Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster debate the merits of
Supertall!, the latest exhibition at New York City's Skycraper Museum.
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09.16.11:
Barry Bergdoll
The Art of Advocacy: The Museum as Design Laboratory
On Places, MoMA's curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll, describes his efforts to expand the museum's role to support experimentation and advocacy.
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06.02.11: Alexandra Lange & Mark Lamster
Lunch with the Critics: Cronocaos
On Places, Mark Lamster and Alexandra Lange analyze "Cronocaos," the new exhibition on preservation at the New Museum in New York, curated by OMA/Rem Koolhaas.
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05.12.11:
Nick Sowers
Soundscapes: Atlantikwall
On Places, selected soundscapes by architect Nick Sowers that record a journey along the
Atlantikwall, the line of coastal fortifications built by the Nazis to defend against Allied invasion.
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02.21.11:
Lisa Findley
Red and Gold: A Tale of Two Apartheid Museums
On Places, architect Lisa Findley explores South African apartheid museums, and the difficulties of memorializing a complex and terrible history.
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10.12.10:
Quilian Riano
Relearning the Social: Architecture and Change
On Places, architect Quilian Riano reviews the Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition
Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement.
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11.15.09:
Our Design Decade
Mimi Zeiger reviews
Design USA, which opened last month at the Cooper-Hewitt, marking ten years of the National Design Awards program.
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09.13.09:
Keith Eggener
Up-to-Date in Kansas City
Architectural historian Keith Eggener retrieves the little known architectural history of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City — today the nation's official World War I Museum — and sees a path not taken for American modernism.
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