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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A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture
April 5, 2022 Ι Bloomberg CityLab At the new architecture program at Bard College, now in its fourth semester, there’s lots of “troubling” and “unsettling” (used as verbs) to be done. Here, architecture is a method of critique, not a profession dedicated to making shelter. And instead of world-striding creative visionaries, its practitioners are presented… Continue reading A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture