New York Review of Architecture
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Reviews architecture, in New York. nyra.nyc
in a thread about the London Review of Books; but yesterday I was reading @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social at the pool and thinking, I am so grateful to the people who still think being an intellectual is a worthy lifetime pursuit, applicable to any and all potential topics of scrutiny and discussion
Natasha Simonova@philistella.bsky.social · last wk.All of their film pieces are like 'at this viewing of Minions and Monsters I contemplated Weimar Germany'
It's not often that I screengrab an email to put it on here, but this one is worth it. Welcome, New York Review of Finance, cousin of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
“Stare out onto Coney Island Creek, past the skeletons of the boats beached across the decades, and you will see it: the yellow submarine.” Andy Battle dredges the QUESTER 1 in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...
“A capsule was less a portal of restorative calm or creative incubator than a convenient pad to sleep off a drunken night on the town, far away from the wife and kids.” Casey Mack encapsulates the Nakagin Capsule Tower in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/pod...
“What’s an all-American, all-Soviet building like you doing in a place like this?” Mark Krotov contemplates the Russian Diplomatic Compound in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...
“My whole life I dreamed of being an artist; the park allowed me the space to become one.” Dean Majd pops an ollie at Astoria Skate Park in the NYRA Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...
“How is it that where others saw something approaching civil war, Whyte alighted on a market utopia?” Andy Battle answers the whys and wherefores of William H. Whyte’s urbanism in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/cau...
So it's a thrill to discover that immortal book has inspired @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social's delightful GUIDE TO NYC, a gift for its subscribers. Subscribe now and “see our city askew” with 50 superb writers, including...
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
In this edition: • A pair of aces • Room for growth • Still a-maze-ing • Wheel of misfortune • The road less traveled
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“Picture a cross between an Easter Island head and a guillotine as rendered by a Viennese weapons manufacturer.” Christopher Hawthorne gets lean and Wien in NYRA’s inaugural Guide to New York City. nyra.nyc/articles/the...
“Once in Blighty, many of the pioneering Central European modernists softened the hard-edged stances they previously took.” Ross Wolfe reviews Owen Hatherley’s THE ALIENATION EFFECT in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/str...
“Part of the draw for many fans is that the spaces make them feel superior. I would never live in that tacky monstrosity, they might think—nice marble countertop, though.” lorakelley.bsky.social homes in on chez HOUSEWIVES in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/mcm...
“THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway has a special way of rankling its audience. It reminds you how your caviar dreams are going—and how dearly you paid for a few hours in that seat.” Travis Diehl assails THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES on Broadway in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/sup...
“I often call weeds a commons, believing that under capitalism they are what is left for the rest of us.” Jennifer Kabat botanizes on the asphalt in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/wee...
“If you come on the right day in early summer, you can see big piles of exuberant horseshoe crabs crawling all over each other in a festival of reproduction.” James Andrew Billingsley day-trips to Ward’s Point in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/the...
“The reality is a greenwashed Tatlin’s Tower by way of Tishman Speyer.” Ann Manov endures corporate drudgery and shrubbery in Hudson Yards in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/doo...
“If nostalgia for imperialish grandeur and a longing for a suburban lifestyle are two pillars of Victorian Flatbush, the third is exclusivity.” Randle Browning finds rus in urbe in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/dit...
“The Shakers may be the only millenarian Christians in American history who need sinners like you and me to think they’re cool.” Jackson Arn contemplates the work of art in the age of puritanical reproduction in NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/sha...
I will not be in L.A. but this must be very interesting: @hawthorne.bsky.social @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social @lamaterial.bsky.social luma.com/5ysm82a3?utm...
A LACMA Therapy Session · Luma
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Honored and somewhat mystified to have won a National Magazine Award for my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social piece on Paul Rudolph alongside the great @monchaux.bsky.social, who won for two of his NYRA pieces (on Rudolph and the new Frick). Architectural criticism forever! nyra.nyc/articles/meg...
Megalopolis
My longing for LOMEX occupies a kind of double counterfactual—<EM>what if</EM>, but <EM>what if not in that way</EM>—not wholly dissimilar from Rudolph’s own.
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“Showy and detached and hyperformally expressive buildings cannot be merely coincidental with showy and detached men who believe they have a lot to say.” @monchaux.bsky.social judges David Adjaye’s recent museum projects in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/debris-of-separation
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“Who but Wallace Shawn and André Gregory would dare serve up this steaming brew of Sleepytime and manage to make such a riveting night of theater?” Moze Halperin is aflutter over Wallace Shawn’s MOTH DAYS in NYRA 50. nyra.nyc/articles/shawn-of-the-dead
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“You fall into a series of articles that are irreverent, witty, passionate, and always well-written. These contributors are, first of all, very good writers—who happen to be writing about architecture.” — Billie Tsien Our brand-new, Billie-approved issue: nyra.nyc/issues/50
