on his deathbed, donald trump saw the light of allah and unhesitatingly recited the shahada

The most cursed image I’ve ever generated

Enjoying Normal Friday in the Graham Foundation bathroom

When you hear it from AI it seems like a threat

DAVID BYRNE: Water dissolving! Water removing! ME: Oh yeah? DAVID BYRNE: There is water at the bottom of the ocean 🙂 ME: That’s so cool buddy. Did you learn that at school today? DAVID BYRNE: Remove the water 😡 carry the water 😡 ME: Hm how about we carry some juice in your sippy cup bud?

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Michael Sorkin in 1972 on the pointlessness of aesthetic moralism, design's lack of autonomy, dunking on Buckminster Fuller and technosaviorism, program and process as the true locus of radicalism, degrowth and refusal, all in one of his first clips, when he was like 12 years old

I’ve been thinking about “Running Scared” because the climax is shot at the (then newly-opened) Thompson Center … er, now Google’s future headquarters and the building is being entirely remade, so the movie is now an architectural time capsule 😭😭😭 Wrote about it here not long ago. Gift 🔗

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

jesus christ man you're supposed to at least pretend the subject of your profile didn't write the lede himself

I sold my car for $500 and paid my first month’s rent

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Two duffle bags, no chairs, several walls that were not connected to the floor, best years of my life, by far.

If the NYT is just going to rip off @katewagner.wehwalt.net’s McMansion Hell bits they should have made them funny

For MAS Context, I wrote about the Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute of Chicago. The project was a unique framework of partnerships between government, cultural institutions, and the private sector unlikely to happen again. The room is threatened as the AIC plans a campus expansion.

I'm not even really joking, half of this guy's appeal is he radiates "benevolent tough guy" while D leadership continues dreaming up new versions of "student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities."

I'm the guy in the government who decides when it's time to "just say some shit." Industry best practices hold that after a big human rights violation or bad job stats or the president says "I would never kiss Katy Tur on her whatever" to a visiting head of state it's a good time to talk about Mars.

“This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity, and the rights of all people, no matter where they come from. I want to take this moment to reiterate that Chicago does not want ICE on our streets, in our airports, nor in our city.” @wttw.bsky.social

how is this real

The fact that people who can afford to spend $55K per year on their 2nd grader's school trust an AI algorithm more than they trust your average public school teacher tells you everything you need to know about where we're headed. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/25/a...

Oh my boyfriend? You wouldn’t know him, he goes to

Emotionally, spiritually, and physically, I exist at the intersection of Domenico Dragonetti’s 19th century upright bass and Daniel Libeskind’s custom paint-jobbed scooter

Part of it is the hyper-consistent archive lighting, but it is really hard to take a bad picture here, even if I’m in it.

Love 2 experience a wholly new building typology. V&A Storehouse East is 🧨💥💯

I distinctly remember finding this Sam Kieth book in the grocery store spinning rack as a kid and not having the words to describe how cool it was but knowing I *needed* more of it

Bluesky is the social media network for people young enough to know who Hasan Piker is but old enough to think that watching someone just talk on a twitch stream sounds like torture

Nothing quite so merciless as the transition from economic consumer to producer on your last day of vacation.

Literally one of the best Brutal housing estates ever.

We could have avoided so much useless aesthetic moralism by making sure that all brutalist buildings have generous landscaping budgets. [Neave Brown’s Alexandra Road Estate in London, 1978]

Thank you Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Michael Powell for everything you did to win Leqaa's freedom in the name of free speech on campus

So true, Descartes invented introspection only 389 years ago.

Best photo I took in London. Lloyd’s of London, Richard Rogers.

All art should be about everything all the time, and it should be about everything I personally care about and it should flatter me for caring about it. The people who made it should be perfect and also agree with my thing

It’s all happening, I’m writing about the Graham Foundation’s bathroom

I made a WhatsApp service for checking if a location in Chicago is allowed to have an ADU I’m waiting for the new phone number to be approved, but I could use a tester or two

The Times editorial board was fine with urging readers not to vote for Mamdani and support Cuomo on the grounds that Cuomo was a ruthless operator who got things done. In a parallel universe, the Mamdani coverage would be that he is weak and feckless, unable to assert leadership. He can't win.

easily one of the coolest maps i have ever seen

Lookin’ at you, architecture

Cult of the Barbican Theater Stage Flytower Greenhouse 🙏🧎‍➡️

Barbican Interiors. A real essay in the lightness of concrete.

Bath, UK’s iconic limestone masonry

Imagine taking the production of affordable housing as seriously as the federal government took the space race in the 1960s. This actually happened, thanks to the REPUBLICANS running HUD. My story for @bloomberg.com on Operation Breakthrough. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For @bloomberg.com I wrote about George Romney’s (yes, Mitt’s dad) plan to have HUD build 26 million homes, and it’s hard to see the Operation Breakthrough program as anything other than the last lonely witness to the end of the New Deal coalition. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

When u hire Milton Friedman to do your wayfinding design

Throwback to one of the goofiest and best little stories I’ve ever written