This year, Postopolis was a five-day event, where bloggers of the built environment came back out from behind their keyboards, convening in a real, live urban environment. For me, this trip out west was a follow up to the first Postopolis that…
How should architecture criticism change? I say: more profiles, not fewer. When we write about architecture, yes, we should write about it in context. Big, city-shaping forces are at work here, but those can be cumbersome ideas, and trying to …
One night recently I took my three-year-old daughter to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn for a Dept. of Ed. hearing in a stifling basement with autopsy-grade lighting, and it got me thinking about how we urban-design writers work.
To respond to Andrew’s question — What is the state of architecture criticism? — we first need to look at where we are in terms of architecture. I agree, the “Bilbao Ponzi era” is over. Starchitecture has, like some hurtling …
In the couple months since my essay, In Praise of Slowness, was posted here on Omnibus, the meta-question of criticism has repeatedly floated to the surface. It’s been urged on by global upheaval—the end of the Bilbao Ponzi era!—but …
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David Benjamin, Deborah Berke, Hugh Hardy, Gregg Pasquarelli, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, and Claire Weisz answer the question: “What does New York City need to do to sustain itself… |
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Andrew Blum articulates the difficulty of communicating architectural urbanism when urban processes of change do not correspond to any existing media cycle. |
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Richard Sennett takes us on a walk through the West Village. |
