Considering its extreme scarcity, its provenance, and its immaculate condition, the Lincoln Bathroom's now-destroyed #Vitrolite walls—original to the 1949-51 Truman reconstruction—were considerably more valuable than Trump's common marble-by-the-yard. #HistoricPreservation #20thCenturyPreservation

I have some of those 1970s 📚 on cardboard furniture, but I was unaware of their cnxn to the 💐Workshop for Learning Things 🛠️, a Whole Earth-y resource + learning center for teachers (same as the 60s Ctr for Understanding Media, predecessor to my old dept @ The New School!) (via Eames papers LoC)

I have a very bad feeling about this...

no architects on this year's MacArthur list (again) but great to see which place/space issues are represented. glad for the focus on counter narratives. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

The climate-sensitive restoration of Donald Judd's Architecture Office is “an attempt to go back to 19th-century cooling methods—with an eye toward 21st-century apocalypse." Such a treat to write about this very cool project. www.fastcompany.com/91397383/arc...

excellent use of AI nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

I’ve been asked about the death of (architecture) criticism since I became a critic but thank you and I will add @cmonstah.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social @mlamster.bsky.social @kristoncapps.bsky.social @shannonmattern.bsky.social @dianabudds.bsky.social @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

"Meatpacking is just such a great poster for why you should consider not letting cars just do whatever they want in any district," says Claire Weisz, a founding partner of WXY. For @fastcompany.com, I wrote about how NYC got its first pedestrian-priority district. www.fastcompany.com/91378463/mea...

are you an NYC resident and live with your polycule to save on rent? looking to speak with folks in this arrangement for a story! feel free to DM or send an email (info in my bio)

are you a furniture or interior designer who makes physical scale models/prototypes? if so, would love to chat for a story!

this mutual-aid kitchen & community garden in the south bronx has hammocks for rest, a wood-fired hearth for meals, and medicinal plants for healing. such as treat to cover the design and people who made it for @dwell.bsky.social www.dwell.com/article/hear...

extremely curious if news orgs are seeing a mamdani bump in traffic - the shift in coverage since the election is shocking!

into this venturi-esque streetery in tribeca

Thanks to John Oliver for quoting my highly scientific analysis proving we don’t need federal troops in LA

“Lantz wonders if the events that happened over the last few days in L.A. will inspire designers to think about the parks they make in new ways. “As designers, do you need to start thinking of public space as defensible for these types of actions?” he says.”

"I’ve looked at [the photos] multiple times today — I’ve been proud, I’ve been upset, I’ve been startled. Seeing our work repurposed in a moment of collective action was humbling and powerful," RIOS co-CEO Andy Lantz told @dianabudds.bsky.social

This is a really nice piece. Shoutout to @dianabudds.bsky.social for finding a cool angle to cover this

curtain walls — as in literal curtains — seem to be everywhere in interiors right now. for @wallpapermag.bsky.social, i unpacked the trend. www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

an unexpected perk of ordering an espresso to stay at blue bottle: a v. cute marimekko demitasse

Below, from American Prospect is a paragraph explaining that Trump’s wealth was largely created by FHA subsidies to his father’s business, building middle class housing. I mention this because Trump is poised to eliminate housing vouchers subsidize rent, helping both landlords and tenants.

very big for design criticism! congratulations, @langealexandra.bsky.social!! www.pulitzer.org/winners/22649

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

love this view in the new open-air restroom pavilion at storm king, by heneghan peng and wxy

this illustration is too good! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

This story is going viral and causing a major freakout among museum donors and patrons. I'm told by a source at the museum that it is completely untrue. ??

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

between all the social tonics, gummies, mints, and chocolates (that actually taste good!) now available, it's a boom time for edibles. i took a look at the growing economy around low-dose products @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91319511/ins...

Scoop: DOGE officials met with leadership at the National Gallery of Art this week to discuss the museum's legal status www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

love this www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/w...

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

i need to know who painted that portrait...

my astrology app must know i'm heading to salone

Today @zachmortice.bsky.social has an update on the ACSA's decision to nuke its own flagship journal while exercising the last acceptable form of racism in America (anti-Palestinianism). As he notes, they even hired a GOP/RJC law firm to justify their decision. www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

I'd encourage anyone connected to architecture and design or higher ed to read and share this truly ridiculous story. @shannonmattern.bsky.social @anjulierao.bsky.social @katewagner.bsky.social @dianabudds.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

i hope my favorite subway art installation is only temporarily out of service, but it looks like the plaque is gone too...

The executive order "alarmingly" suggests "that race is a 'biological reality' — a tenet of the pseudoscientific belief of racial superiority." hyperallergic.com/999509/trump...

happy to see the return of outdoor dining sheds - this cutie is by re-ply for lowerline

As predicted, they’re coming for NMAAHC www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

NYC's affordable housing is also its historic housing. On Sat. 3/29, I'm moderating a panel on rent stabilization and the preservation movement's role in sustaining this type of housing for the future in this Historic District Council conference. Please join us! hdc.org/events/2025-...

a couple days left to see this wonderful show on cooperative housing in nyc designed by herman jessor, one of the most influential, yet unsung, architects in the city. cooper.edu/architecture...

i just saw 'the picture of dorian gray' and this is one that production design nerds will want to see — it's an original use of multi-channel film and physical sets. some stills here: marghorwell.com/dorian.html

obsessed: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

a little fact about me: the first piece of 'designer' furniture i wanted was a moser blanket box, back when i was like 10. (i know this is not normal kid behavior.) his catalogs shaped my early understanding of craftsmanship. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/a...

"Ms. Srinivasan said she was an architect...in the fifth year of an urban planning doctoral program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and was supposed to graduate in May." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

Corita, LA's pop-art nun, has a new home for her 30,000-piece archive in the Arts District. And eight weeks after the city was showered in the singed fragments of books and magazines, her work challenging us to make meaning from jagged-edged, out-of-context text delivers even more of a gut-punch

very excited to lead this discussion on graphic design and architecture at AIANY later this month! rsvp in the link below: calendar.aiany.org/2025/03/24/2...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Lets hear it for the ladies who LATHE 🪵 @dianabudds.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/s...

between this and the mass firings at national parks, it seems like there's a massive private-sector land grab waiting in the wings www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/p...

for this sunday's design special section in the new york times, i wrote about women artists, designers, and makers who work with wood, and, in the process, bring narrative dimension to the medium www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/s...