March 21, 2025 Ι Architect’s Newspaper From the top of the Ferris Wheel at the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exposition, Simon Pokagon, an Indigenous rights activist born in 1830, addressed the burgeoning city, and saw an apocalyptic tide of change. “How unlike the Chi-Kag-Ong of the red man!” he wrote in the New York Times… Continue reading We Will Tell Our Story brings decolonial critique to the Chicago architecture canon
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At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home
April 25, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab The items on display at the new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago are almost defiant in their ordinariness. There’s a hammer once used by a resident of the city’s Stateway Gardens development; an iron skillet from a family living in Houston’s Cuney Homes; a hose that once watered… Continue reading At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home
Scholastic Resignation
April 4, 2025 Ι Architect’s Newspaper The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is an international membership association that represents more than 200 schools of architecture and 7,000 faculty around the world. In February, as reported by AN, it canceled the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) themed on Palestine… Continue reading Scholastic Resignation
In Chicago, a Former Steel Mill Looks to Make a Quantum Leap
April 8, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab Life after steel on the South Side of Chicago can be surprisingly beautiful. On a peninsula in Lake Michigan carved out by shipping inlets sits Steelworkers Park, a serene space on the southeast edge of the city that once held the roaring furnaces of US Steel’s South Works. Shoreline… Continue reading In Chicago, a Former Steel Mill Looks to Make a Quantum Leap
Women Architects Struggled to Find a Home Within Modernism
March 8, 2025 Ι Metropolis Magazine The question at the heart of Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, Princeton University Press) is very simple: “What is Modernism?” Focusing on early women Modern architects with special attention on graduates of the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape… Continue reading Women Architects Struggled to Find a Home Within Modernism
Remembering the Landscape Architect Who Embraced the City
Bloomberg CityLab Ι March 1, 2025 In 1972, the New York Times described the landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg as one of the “New Left of playground designers” for his radical breaks with tradition. His playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty New York City public housing projects,… Continue reading Remembering the Landscape Architect Who Embraced the City
Perkins&Will revisits Crow Island School near Chicago to update and upgrade a groundbreaking modernist monument to creative pedagogy
Feb. 6, 2025 Ι Architect’s Newspaper Based on a child-centered and scaled view of primary school pedagogy that celebrates learning in landscape and artisanal craft, Crow Island School, in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Winnetka, is typically regarded as the first modernist school in the nation. Now, it is undergoing an exacting renovation and… Continue reading Perkins&Will revisits Crow Island School near Chicago to update and upgrade a groundbreaking modernist monument to creative pedagogy
When French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building Boom
Feb. 1, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab Let’s say, hypothetically, that there’s a left political party in an affluent Western country. It dominates in urban areas but struggles elsewhere; its working-class voter base has splintered with deindustrialization and more progressive, college-educated factions have emerged. As the nation becomes more multicultural, the party gets increasingly attuned to… Continue reading When French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building Boom
False Fronts
December 13, 2024 Ι The New York Review of Architecture As promised by its title, Julia Schulz-Dornburg’s book often reads like a travel guide. Tourist season—in select parts of Combat City—is year-round, despite limited opportunities for sightseeing. What attractions there are include an archaeological dig and a folkloric festival, plus a heavy emphasis on boot-camp… Continue reading False Fronts
After A Devastating Storm, An Iowa Landmark Finds The Silver Lining
November 19, 2024 Ι Landscape Architecture Magazine On August 10, 2020, a derecho ripped across the Midwest with winds up to 140 miles an hour, causing $11 billion in damages, the most expensive thunderstorm in the United States to date. In the path of the wall of wind and thunderstorms was Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which… Continue reading After A Devastating Storm, An Iowa Landmark Finds The Silver Lining