![A view of 6 World Trade Center, the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, with the one World Trade Center in the background](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/edited-GettyImages-1460690651.jpg)
Everyone Deserves Grandeur Everyone Deserves Grandeur
A new performing arts center in New York’s Financial District demonstrates the problem with the city’s beautiful, expensive buildings.
Apr 6, 2023 / Editorial / Marianela D’Aprile
![Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/single-stair-europe-.149KBjpg.jpg)
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis
They’re a good idea, but they’re not going to liberate us from capitalism.
Mar 31, 2023 / Kate Wagner
![A draughtsman, circa 1940.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DAprile-architecture-getty.jpg)
What’s the Matter With Contemporary Architecture? What’s the Matter With Contemporary Architecture?
In his new book, Reinier de Graaf attempts to work out why his profession appears to be at an impasse.
Mar 22, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Marianela D’Aprile
![We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sunny-bedroom-109KB-ss.jpg)
We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms
Sunlight is not an amenity; it’s a basic human necessity.
Mar 21, 2023 / Kate Wagner
![DALL-E's passable attempt at a modernist apartment block.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/dall-e-modern-1440x907-1.jpg)
No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture
It’s just making it that much less interesting.
Mar 17, 2023 / Kate Wagner
![Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/greige-interior-ss.jpg)
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
Having a personal aesthetic at home has become financially detrimental.
Mar 13, 2023 / Kate Wagner
![Carlos Berger's memorial](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/carlos-berger-funeral-getty.jpg)
Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front
The fight over a memorial to my friend Carlos Berger and other victims of the Caravan of Death reveals that there are still many in Chile who resist the lessons of our country’s tr...
Feb 22, 2023 / Ariel Dorfman
![Buckminster Fuller’s Hall of Mirrors](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-450390300.jpg)
Buckminster Fuller’s Hall of Mirrors Buckminster Fuller’s Hall of Mirrors
Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography assesses the complicated legacy of an architect better known for his image than his work.
Feb 1, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Luis Martinez
![The Most Dangerous Architect in America](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Avenel-Cooperative_Curtesy-of-Julius-Shulman-and-The-MIT-Press-1.-.jpg)
The Most Dangerous Architect in America The Most Dangerous Architect in America
Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more egalitarian architecture never came to be.
Dec 21, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wolf
![Proposed design for a mosquito screen erected over Washington, D.C.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mosquito_Dome_Washington_DC.jpg)
The Half Measures of Public Health Architecture The Half Measures of Public Health Architecture
To build better cities, architects must not only take on projects related to our health; they must confront the contradictions of their plutocratic funding model.
Sep 14, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook