Teddy Cruz : Urban Issues
Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and the pieces are reassembled into creative dwellings for the poor.
A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.
Michael Rakowitz talks about his art, the possibility of public space and the Iraq War.
As conditions worsen inside Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, construction continues on a grandiose US Embassy complex that mirrors Bush Administration delusions of a reordered Middle East. Take a virtual tour.
Roberta Brandes Gratz & Stephen A. Goldsmith : Urban Issues
A tribute to Jane Jacobs's extraordinary vision of urban life and her passionate care for people and places.
Mike Davis & Anthony Fontenot : Racism & Discrimination
New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city submerged in anger and frustration.
Arthur C. Danto : Monuments & Memorials
The undulating monoliths in architect Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial in Berlin are more banal than beautiful--which suits Eisenman fine.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Housing Activism
New homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need not be the penitentiary-style public housing we've come to dread. Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwellings for the poor.
Ross Benjamin : Judaism & Jews
An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
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