An introduction to two issues examining our current urban situation and what lies beyond it: the city’s past and its future; the suburban, the exurban, the frontier.
Learning from John Lindsay’s late-modern metropolis.
From CyBar Stadium to Soapbox Yards: an artist project considering the evolution of a paper-and-ink city.
Supreme geometries, densely packed buildings: cannibalizing the sites and structures of modernism in Mexico.
A limited-edition poster to support new commissions for Triple Canopy.
Tracing the parallel histories of the American megachurch and the corporate-organizational complex.
Rebuilding the Bowery in one adequate descriptive system, with Lower Manhattan circa 1997 as a flock of digital swans.
The trauma of lost histories and the joys of JPEGs from webcam atop the highest hill in Portland, Maine.
Photographic portraits cataloging traces of the mortal and the industrial on forest floors and forgotten lots.
Utopian modernism turned on its head in Caracas, where residents have made fifty-year-old superblock housing projects into the locus of sprawling improvised settlements.
Chinese textile wholesalers have taken over a Parisian neighborhood, and the government is determined to legislate them into oblivion.
Amid the wreckage of old Beijing, the Modern Group debuts “Moma.”
The Roma build their palaces just like the rest of us, one cinder block at a time.
