Want to Build Worker Power? Ask an Architect. Want to Build Worker Power? Ask an Architect.
You don’t have to wield a T-square to benefit from the field’s first collective bargaining agreement in decades.
Sep 30, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
The Gifts of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) The Gifts of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)
The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing.
Sep 26, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World
The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors.
Aug 7, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
The Transformation of Gowanus The Transformation of Gowanus
Can a Superfund site be remade into an experiment for equitable housing and eco-friendly development?
Jul 31, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs
The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai
The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.
Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church
More than a half century of the Poetry Project
Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones
What’s the Deal With Manhattan’s Pencil-Thin High Rises? What’s the Deal With Manhattan’s Pencil-Thin High Rises?
A walk along 57th Street.
Jun 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs
The Radical World-making of Joanna Russ The Radical World-making of Joanna Russ
In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future.
May 13, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
Capitalist Rot Has Spread to American Kitchens Capitalist Rot Has Spread to American Kitchens
We’ve privileged constant renovation over resilience, and it’s damaged the aesthetics and functionality of domestic architecture.
Apr 16, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
What Happened to the 21st-Century City? What Happened to the 21st-Century City?
And how we can save it.
Mar 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wagner