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Reputations
05.14.12: Keith Eggener
The Uses of DaylightOn Places, Keith Eggener casts new light on the little-known Boley Building in Kansas City, by Louis Curtiss, which featured one of the first glass curtain walls in America.
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03.19.12: Gabrielle Esperdy
Banham's AmericaOn Places, Gabrielle Esperdy traces the American journeys of Reyner Banham, and views the British historian in the lively tradition of European travelers who tell us Americans something important about ourselves.
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02.27.12: Belmont Freeman
What Is It About the Art Schools?On Places, Belmont Freeman recounts the dramatic saga of the National Art Schools in Havana — and argues that we are overlooking the larger narrative of post-revolutionary Cuban architecture.
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02.06.12: Keith Eggener
Louis Curtiss and the Politics of Architectural ReputationOn Places, Keith Eggener assesses the work of the neglected Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss — and highlights the politics of professional repuation.
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06.16.11: Alice T. Friedman
Girl Talk: Marion Mahony Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Oak Park StudioOn Places, architectural historian Alice Friedman explores the pioneering career of architect Marion Mahony Griffin, who rose to prominence in the Oak Park office of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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05.19.11: Ian Baldwin
The Architecture of Harry WeeseOn Places, Ian Baldwin reviews The Architecture of Harry Weese, and finds an overlooked modernist whose work was "highly original and often stunning."
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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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04.29.11: Gita Lenz & Gordon Stettinius
Gita Lenz: New York ViewsOn Places, a gallery by the mid-century New York photographer Gita Lenz, whose long neglected work is gaining new recognition.
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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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03.29.11: Jonathan Massey
Breuer, Baby!On Places, selections from "Marcel Breuer and Postwar America," a recent exhibition at the Syracuse School of Architecture, organized by Jonathan Massey and Barry Bergdoll.
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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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01.20.11: Sandy Isenstadt
American GlamourOn Places, Sandy Isenstadt reviews Alice Friedman's American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.
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09.16.10: Kim Förster
Massimo Vignelli: Oppositions, Skyline and the InstituteOn Places, a gallery of Massimo Vignelli's graphic design work for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, written and curated by Kim Förster.
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06.22.10: Alice T. Friedman
Modern Architecture for the "American Century"On Places, an excerpt from Alice Friedman's American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture, on Eero Saarinen's iconic projects for General Motors and TWA, and the rise and fall — and rise — of the architect's reputation.
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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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03.06.10: Nancy Levinson
Critical BeatsOn Places, Nancy Levinson argues that the fundamental dilemma of architecture criticism is the rise of the global beat — dateline: placeless.
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03.01.10: Ian Baldwin
Reading RudolphOn Places, architect Ian Baldwin reviews Paul Rudolph: Writings on Architecture, and makes a compelling case for looking anew at several important but neglected projects.
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02.24.10: Robert Bruegmann
The Architect as Urbanist: Part 2On Places, architectural historian Robert Bruegmann continues his analysis of Paul Rudolph's late work, with a focus on several extraordinary projects in southeast Asia.
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02.24.10: Robert Bruegmann
The Architect as Urbanist: Part 1On Places, architectural historian Robert Bruegmann argues that the later and lesser known work of Paul Rudolph — best known for his architecture building at Yale — deserves renewed attention.
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02.04.10: Timothy Mennel
Working for the PeopleCompleting his doctorate in geography, Timothy Mennel produced not a typical dissertation but Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York. On Places, read an excerpt, in which Moses and Frank Lloyd Wright take a drive through Harlem and the Bronx.
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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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