Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy

thanks henry!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

AI stunt journalism continues to be dumb + lazy

We praise “culturally responsive” design, even when we know almost nothing about the cultures it’s responding to. Lately, I’ve started to think of architectural criticism as its own type of diaspora. In @azuremagazine.bsky.social, one of my more intimate pieces: www.azuremagazine.com/article/hous...

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Took my friend to visit Sverre Fehn’s Storhamarlåven (1969-74) with the luxury of having the whole place to ourselves. This is the holy grail. Norway pilgrimage, let’s go 🧣🧵 #sverrefehn

“I think the more likely scenario is a forced-to-carry-this-to-term situation, where we actually decide we don’t want it, and we are not allowed to get rid of it.” Loved talking with @gustavoarellano.bsky.social, Joe Mathews, and @hawthorne.bsky.social about the viability of the 2028 games

“The idea that the I.O.C. or Trump can basically force, by the barrel of a gun, L.A. into going forward with these Olympics should send a chill down the spine of every Angeleno.” In Punch List this week, a roundtable on the viability of the 2028 Summer Games: www.punchlistmag.com/p/should-l-a...

honing that echo? ai’s gonna win, isn’t it?

if anything, the slightly cheesy and celebrity-heavy top floor of NMAAHC made me think of the whole thing as a bit too easily redemptive

Legendary Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau once said "Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome."

“I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums”

between newspapers/magazines/broadsheets/ catalogues/book chapters + my newsletter, I think I’ve written more than 20k words for publication over the last month. i need a vacation from summertime

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

seriously. the press coverage on this has been so credulous and inane

You should subscribe to the Punch List Architecture Newsletter from @hawthorne.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. Today brought a brilliant review of Julian Rose’s new museum book; other weeks have been about Trump’s architect, the architecture of Hungarian authoritarianism, etc. www.punchlistmag.com

yikes

“head of nasa sean duffy”

calling a trad "untutored" is some real shit lol, credit to Eisenman here

Perfect quote from Eisenman because he's a pure reactionary with a very dubious historical perspective via Rowe. There are much weirder things in antiquity, and some people did figure this out later. Unlike McCrery, though, they could play ball.

Man, this is such a subtly vicious takedown of James McCrery and Trump’s stupid ballroom by Peter Eisenman. From @hawthorne.bsky.social’s just out and excellent Punch List newsletter.

thanks to @novakovicto.bsky.social & @azuremagazine.bsky.social for a great conversation

it is an ironclad law of the universe that the train you’re running to catch will leave on time, to the second, while the subsequent one, the one you have to settle for, will be delayed

What badass investigative reporter is going undercover with one of these ICE goon squads? This is, like, THE story right now. Who trains? What rules of engagement? What propaganda do they consume? How do they recruit, and weed out non-sadists? Would they follow orders to shoot regime enemies?

And, btw, I've just discovered that you can subscribe to "Punch List Architecture Newsletter", a weekly dispatch on architecture, design, and cities, from @hawthorne.bsky.social. Highly recommended: www.punchlistmag.com

New from me: Touring the architecture of the Orban autocracy—plus my odd run-in, back home in New Haven, with the Hungarian Minister of Culture www.punchlistmag.com/p/letter-fro...

The news section does include a link to last week's review of the same book by @hawthorne.bsky.social, in his new Punch List Architecture Newsletter, which I read only after writing my own review. www.punchlistmag.com/p/is-archite...

New on Punch List: The shaky case for a ban on new buildings www.punchlistmag.com/p/is-archite...

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

Harvard University has responded to demands from the federal government. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

a thousand times yes

reading banham on loos. this man dismantled hot-take culture in 1957!

Ahead of the Oscars, some thoughts on The Brutalist for @yalereview.bsky.social: turns out it’s not really about architecture after all. yalereview.org/article/chri...

Architecture critics have almost universally lambasted “The Brutalist,” which is up for ten Academy Awards next month. But the film isn't really about architecture, @hawthorne.bsky.social writes. It has more to do with American exceptionalism. yalereview.org/article/chri...

Pilots and flight attendants should be talking about striking if DOGE goes anywhere near the FAA

imagine getting fleeced by rob pelinka

Studio of En Masse Architecture and Design in Chicago, IL

or says he believes. can we be more skeptical/careful about this pls?

LA City Council voted TWICE to approve the Venice Dell affordable housing project on city-owned land after years of public meetings and hearings, but now City Attorney Soto and CM Park are going rogue by blocking the project with unlawful backdoor tactics & unnecessary bureaucratic red tape.

if only the bias meter had been around to measure the LAT’s reporting on high-speed rail!

wow the (alleged) health-care avenger is a trad

If I were in Boston on Dec 5, I would TOTALLY go to KSG to see David Reinfurt + Robt Wiesenberger recreate Muriel Cooper's 1981 slide lecture, "Graphics + New Technology,” "given at a hinge moment btw print + screen-based graphic design, 9yrs after Lrng from Las Vegas + 4yrs before the Media Lab"

lol goldfish lifespan is about three weeks so not sure the cleaning protocol is a pressing issue. also my official stance is that fish tank design should be a safe space for pure formalism

Some 📷s of Ma Yansong's talk last night at YSOA. His office has so much work around the world that he barely had time to share even basic info on each project. Loved that he showed the fish tank he designed as a young jobless architect though—

Did you know that there’s a second Paul Rudolph bldg at Yale, aside from the famous A&A? It’s a single-story design—ringed by 28 precast, treelike concrete columns—hidden away along Prospect St. and called Greeley Memorial Laboratory. It predates A&A: It was completed in 1959, when Rudolph was 41