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Popular Culture
01.03.12: Michael P. Branch
The Hills Are AliveOn Places, Michael Branch reflects on how deeply photography and film shape our landscape aesthetics (and how much he detests the Alpine-worshipping The Sound of Music).
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10.10.11: Enrique Ramirez
I Watch Slacker to Read Austin in the OriginalOn Places, architectural historian and Texas native Enrique Ramirez assesses Richard Linklater's Slacker and recalls Austin in an earlier and less self-conscious era.
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06.13.11: Despina Stratigakos
What I Learned from Architect BarbieWhy can't architects wear pink? On Places, Despina Stratigakos describes the feminist politics that inspired Architect Barbie.
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05.31.11: Martin Hogue
A Short History of the CampsiteOn Places, Martin Hogue traces a history of the campsite, from early 20th-century wilderness camps to today's domesticated campgrounds, where the amenities include day spas and wi-fi.
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08.18.10: Martin Hogue
Land, Speed and BonnevilleOn Places — coinciding with Speed Week at Bonneville — a gallery created by architect Martin Hogue documents decades of land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats of western Utah.
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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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