Why are those windows so skinny now (first/left) compared to the July rendering (second/right)? Ballroom get taller? Bays get narrower? Structure get beefier? Whatever the case, the proportions (both the windows and the pilasters) seem odd to me, not very classical.

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "The House of Dr Koolhaas" by Françoise Fromonot, the first title in the "Gumshoe" series edited by Fromonot and Thomas Weaver, and published by Park Books: archidose.substack.com/p/the-name-i...

The new (and first) monograph on London's Assemble is out this week from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social. Written by Aaron Betsky, it's also Book of the Week in my newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/the-abcs-o...

This serious yet enjoyable essay summarizes all of the reasons I hate AI: www.e-flux.com/architecture...

My newsletter is back from a two-week break and suitably features a book I used while on break: "Buildings of Missouri" by Osmund Overby, Carol Grove and Cole Woodcox, part of the Society of Architectural Historians’ "Buildings of the United States" series. archidose.substack.com/p/show-me-sh...

When Trump started his second term and issued the memo to Make America Beautiful Again, I signed up for GSA emails to stay in the loop. Instead of news about buildings, new or old, each week seems to bring a bunch of announcement about AI deals and the supposed efficiencies, savings, etc. it brings.

Today's Unzoomed should be an easy one for most architects, urban designers, landscape architects, ...: www.unzoomed.com/en/2025-08-30

Checking the proofs for the ***new edition*** of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD with all of my Pulitzer Prize winning essays! Out in November. www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-of...

"Collective publishers are distinct from cooperatives, often more motivated by ideological ideals than by increasing the bottom line." - featuring the Publishers Cooperative, FC2, Ugly Duckling Presse, City Works Press, AK Press

Good piece by @rockmarooned.bsky.social that is focused on film and culture reviews but just as easily applies to architecture critics: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

There's a new monograph on WORKac published by Park Books hitting bookstores this week. So it's also in my newsletter this week: archidose.substack.com/p/from-brook...

Book of the Week in my Substack is "The Expressway World" by Richard J. Williams, published by @politybooks.bsky.social in July: archidose.substack.com/p/we-are-liv...

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights" from the Real Estate Innovation Lab at MIT, while the book From the Archive is "The Creative Destruction of New York City" by Alessandro Busà: archidose.substack.com/p/driving-de...

White House rendering vs. Mar-a-Lago reality:

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI," edited by Boris Chukhovich, Davide Del Curto and Ekaterina Golovatyuk, published by Lars Müller Publishers: archidose.substack.com/p/taking-tas...

My book newsletter this week features "Studio Ghibli: Architecture in Animation" by Hiyao Miyazaki and Terunobu Fujimori and, from the archive, "Terunobu Fujimori: Architect": archidose.substack.com/p/fantasy-ro...

"Pitch Black" is for sale! The Fort Greene (BK) house and studio that David Adjaye designed for artists Lorna Simpson and James Casebere in 2005 is asking $6.5 million. Photo is one I took for my 2011 NYC guidebook. Many pics at 6sqft: www.6sqft.com/modern-fort-...

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "A Moratorium on New Construction," by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, published by Sternberg Press / @mitpress.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/an-archite...

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter, A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books, is "Inverse Utopia: Urbanism and the Great Acceleration," by Albert Pope (author of the seminal "Ladders"), published last fall by Birkhäuser: archidose.substack.com/p/the-pope-o...

Nominations are open for the 2026 SAH Publication and Film & Video Awards! Deadline September 3. sah.org/programs/sah... (Pictured: These awesome titles won the top prize in 2025.) #ArchitectureBooks #BookClub #bookcover #bookprize #BookAwards #readinglist #SAH

I’m being asked a LOT if the excellent exhibition book that assembles the main content, including my writing + the profiles of the 34 cities, can be purchased on-line & shipped. So far it’s just sold at the Exhibition but your interest might make them think that…cc @paris.fr @annehidalgo.bsky.social

Haven't read it yet, but this seems made just for you, @jmings.bsky.social daily.bandcamp.com/features/the...

A trio of Richard Rogers in my newsletter this week: "Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture," just reprinted by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social, "Cities for a Small Planet" from 1997, and "A Place for All People: Life, Architecture and the Fair Society" from 2017: archidose.substack.com/p/richard-ro...

Last week's newsletter had houses in Mexico, but this week it's all housing in Metropolitan Barcelona: archidose.substack.com/p/learning-f... Book of the Week is "Housing in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona: Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management (IMPSOL) 2015-2024"

My book newsletter this week features "Casa Mexicana" by Jonathan Bell and Edmund Sumner (photographs), published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social, plus "The New Architecture in Mexico" (1937) from the archive: archidose.substack.com/p/living-lar...

Curious there would be such a lobby considering light-colored roofs "save energy, lower air-conditioning bills and reduce city temperatures...And they typically cost no more than dark roofs." One of the groups is even called the Coalition for Sustainable Roofing, repping Holcim, Johns Manville, etc

My newsletter this week features "Genuine Construction: Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia," published by Park Books and distributed in the US by @uchicagopress.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

Today is a good day

Longchamps Store then (2010) and now. Why did Thomas Heatherwick have to 🤮 on one of his better projects? www.wallpaper.com/fashion-beau...

Book of the Week in my newsletter is the only catalog from one of the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale that I brought home with me (usually it's many more): "Heatwave," edited by Andrea Faraguna, who designed the Golden Lion-winning Bahrain Pavilion. archidose.substack.com/p/back-from-...

As a young architect in Chicago, I spent way too much of my paycheck at Prairie Avenue Bookshop. I still miss the store and the people who worked there, who made each visit that much better.

My heart is still beating so fast. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

Book of the Week in my newsletter is "Forget Me Not (Vergissmeinnicht)" by Stéphanie Baechler, with photographs by Ladina Bischof, and an award-winning design by Rudy Guedj, whose Building Fictions published it: archidose.substack.com/p/a-visit-to... A beautiful book!

Never seen this before – the original winning entry to the 1958 Sunday Times ideas competition for an extension to the National Gallery, won by Mr Barrie Dewhurst, who received £2,500

Book of the Week in my newsletter is "Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture," written by Todd Gannon and recently published by @gettymuseum.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/a-life-in-... Highly recommended.

I could really care less about Trump's "Garden of Heroes," but what's with the handful of architects on it? I had to look up Thomas Ustick Walter. Wright's obvious, but where's Sullivan? And where's Julia Morgan? Or is she—or any woman architect—not as "heroic" as John Russell Pope?

Some professional news:

Book of the Week in my Substack is "I Almost Forgot: Unpublished Colin Rowe," edited by Daniel Naegele with Zhengyang Hua, published by @mitpress.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/as-i-was-s...

"The framing assembly [of 'PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity' at the Venice Biennale] will provide shade in the hot summer heat." www.archpaper.com/2025/04/us-p... But will it provide protection from the rain the way, you know, porches do? Looks like it won't.

Good grief www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m... I guess arguments over urbanism come in 20-year cycles, as even before wading into this undoubtedly misguided article I'm flashing back to Robert Bruegmann's "Sprawl: A Compact History" from 2005 and Richard Ingersoll's "Sprawltown" from 2006.

"Officials bless site plan for new Walmart Neighborhood Market"—the number one news item in the Architecture section of Google News this morning. Says to me that EVERYTHING is now architecture, and the division between church and state is gone. ICYW, the "blessed" site plan has 232 parking spaces.

"There is much to explore in the sea from an architectural perspective, ... Architecture Follows Fish is an invitation to dive in." A wonderful review of André Tavares’s highly original exploration of the history of #architecture in relation to fish: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204910...

The Book of the Week in my Substack is André Tavares’s "Architecture Follows Fish," published last fall by @mitpress.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/architectu... (Scroll down for Tavares's earlier book "The Anatomy of the Architectural Book," recently reprinted by Lars Müller Publishers.)

"Finding Frank at the Book Fair," my short write-up after a visit to the 65th Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at Park Avenue Armory yesterday: archidose.substack.com/p/finding-fr...

The substance of this NYT article & some of the reader comments show that the debate over the subway map—system legibility vs geographic accuracy—is still going strong. Note that the MTA labels it a diagram, not a map, eschewing any need to relate to the city above. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/n...

"Harvard Design Magazine No. 52: Instruments of Service," guest edited by Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti and Jacob Reidel, is this week's Book of the Week (or is it Magazine of the Week?) in my newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...

Jahan Blasberg's photographs of Egypt's New Administrative Capital feel like something Trump sees in his dreams for remaking DC and for building the National Garden of American Heroes. www.dezeen.com/2025/03/27/n...

This book sounds like a must: "It remains to be seen if the book will be a monument to the past or an invitation to the future. But the fact remains that you can still learn to write a sentence from McPhee: Readers can use this book as a guide."

"Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete," edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt and published by Actar Publishers, is Book of the Week in my newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...