We're proud to announce Issue Five has dropped! Subscribers, expect it in your mailboxes soon. Leading us off is @mcmansionhell.bsky.social's dispatch from the Venice Biennale -- a definitive critique of the architectural non-future our rulers have in store. strangematters.coop/kate-wagner-...

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It does matter! You need to build a world before you can advocate for it! You have to ask what that world would look like and sometimes that means literally. What is your answer to nostalgia bait and slop? Why is only one side allowed to make images?

“The right has a cultural answer to the disintegration of the economic and social order. Trump’s ballroom is an expression of that.” The most interesting, compelling, provocative piece on Trump’s ballroom by far, by @katewagner.wehwalt.net nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

when your hammer makes solid contact with your chisel, and the chisel with the stone, there’s a wonderful feeling of force being transmitted from one to the other and of the potential for that force to change things and this right here is it

everyone loves architecture criticism until it’s time to actually challenge anything

I just need to pause again to say WRECKING BALLROOM

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“Trader Vic’s was far from real Polynesian food, and it trafficked in stereotypes that betrayed what it actually was: a tacky chain restaurant.” Claudia Ross reminisces about Los Angeles’s bygone “international” eateries in LARA no. 2 nyra.nyc/articles/koo...

genuinely stupendous stuff, here. the willingness to destroy something is a gotdamn politics

I think this piece is valuable in that it forces to name what exactly our alternative vision (aesthetic and political) to Trumpism really is. There’s an unstated assumption On Here that we can somehow make it politically 2012 again, which is impossible. What do we want our new world to look like?

Hard agree with Kate, the whole tack of trying to appeal to the public by indignantly going "Trump is not being respectful of our normal government stuff!!!!" feeds directly into the rebel-in-chief delusion that got him elected in the first place.

I wrote about Trump’s ballroom and the right’s quest to remake the symbolic order for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

“Case Study House #16, luminous and transparent, is not itself a mystery.” enriqueramirez.bsky.social cases Case Study House #16 in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/col...

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“To paraphrase Bill Hader’s SNL character Stefon, Los Angeles’s hottest club is Marta.” Eva Hagberg attends A GARDEN OF… (2025), an exhibition at Marta, a gallery in Silver Lake, in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“To paraphrase Bill Hader’s SNL character Stefon, Los Angeles’s hottest club is Marta.” Eva Hagberg attends A GARDEN OF… (2025), an exhibition at Marta, a gallery in Silver Lake, in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“These days, it’s mostly bad vibes on the Strip, which grasps at the past and the future with equal desperation.” Shane Reiner-Roth is billboard to death on the Sunset Strip in LARA no 2. nyra.nyc/articles/aul...

“Floating didn’t begin on the West Coast. But like so many methods of physical and mental optimization, its strange history wouldn’t have been possible anywhere else.” Lyra Kilston is buoy crazy in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/mac...

“The augmented museum will be, in essence, and inefficiently enough, a doubled version of the original.” hawthorne.bsky.social decodes the Broad addition in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/bro...

Join us next week as New York Review of Architecture takes over Vitsœ’s New York showroom. For five days, NYRA will transform the Greenwich Village space into our office and pop-up holiday shop. nyra.nyc/vitsoe

“To watch the movie today, after it languished six decades in obscurity, feels akin to breaking the seal on a long-buried time capsule.” jomc.bsky.social inhales a new restoration of Franco Rossi’s SMOG (1962) in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/whe...

“On our own, we are defenseless against the fireball we happen to depend on for existence.” @petesegall.bsky.social takes umbrage in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/sli...

“These places are rigidly controlled simulacra, which is probably what has earned Caruso the moniker ‘the Walt Disney of Retail.’” cmonstah.bsky.social doesn’t groove with the Grove in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

“The reboot goes full throttle, in tune with the eighty-two-year-old architect’s late-baroque, end-of-the-world phase.” ollywainwright.bsky.social spots Eric Owen Moss’s 708/2 House at the Venice Architecture Biennale in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/708...

“In architecture, the diagram entangles objectivity and authorship (often disavowing the latter).” partymel.bsky.social reviews Rem Koolhaas’s “Diagrams” at Fondazione Prada, on view until November 24, in NYRA no. 46-47. nyra.nyc/articles/rem...

“Would Louis B. Mayer (or his accountant) have ever signed off on a design so lush, so louche, so über-Wright as this?” Phillip Cox studies The Studio’s set in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/wri...

“In July, Tesla opened its own neo-Googie diner on Santa Monica Boulevard, giving Los Angeles a slice of Muskian techno-utopia.” Skijler Hutson takes a bite out of Tesla Diner in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/goo...

“Can merely good work be as meaningful as really great work?” Greg Goldin enters the dream factory of Franklin D. Israel in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/fra...

Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...

“McCoy borrows a screenwriter’s idiom to assert that La Mesa Drive had become ‘something to wrap the herring in,’ which is to say: garbage.” Matthew Specktor unravels a fishy feud in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/rea...

“A rent-stabilized building sells for more when it is vacant than when it is occupied. The TIC business model has emerged primarily as a way to manufacture such vacancies.” Chelsea Kirk tussles with tenancy in common in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/tic...

chicago heads! tomorrow I'm doing a @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social panel with venerated Marxist scholar Doug Spencer about writing about architecture and the weird capitalist juncture we're in now chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...

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In honor of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win last night, we’re revisiting our post-primary roundtable from this past summer, where we asked respondents to imagine what might be possible under a Mamdani mayoralty. nyra.nyc/articles/zoh...

This Election Day, we’re rereading Charlie Dulik’s “Seeing Red,” which zeroes in on the lone Manhattan district that broke for Trump a year ago. nyra.nyc/articles/kni...

“Machine intelligence doesn’t transcend human fragility but echoes and amplifies it.” @prometheanwatch.bsky.social reviews Lawrence Lek’s NOX High-Rise at @hammer.ucla.edu, up until 11/16, in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/car...

“With machines (however remotely assisted) where essential workers used to be, those who WFH are ever more shielded from strangers beneath their tax bracket.” @jomc.bsky.social isn’t cuckoo for Coco bots in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/way...

dcuff.bsky.social, James Rojas, Mark Rios, Victor J. Jones, Chava Danielson, Jia Yi Gu, and Christopher Torres respond to the ICE raids on Los Angeles in this issue's Archforum. nyra.nyc/articles/eco...

About time New York had a Review.

“Densifying a population that clings to the idea of a verdant frontier—one’s own yard and the light and water required for it to flourish—is a delicate art of misdirection.” Aubrey Bauer imagines urban density regained in LARA no. 2 nyra.nyc/articles/par...

“Outside, ICE agents prowled the streets for immigrant workers, some of whom work for modern-day Gambles.” @reneereizman.com airs out the dirty laundry at the Gamble House in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/gre...

Hey look at this: our cover artist @seansuchara.bsky.social is on bluesky!

“Without a newspaper, the cooperators would be defenseless against the disinformation that underpins privatization campaigns.” @ntok.bsky.social goes co-op in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/204...

“To send a postcard, especially from a place like Santa Monica, is to tell someone that you’ve arrived somewhere beautiful, and it made you think of them.” Nick Murray wishes you were here in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/mem...

“Los Angeles is forever fracturing and piecing itself back together—only to find itself on the verge of a fresh crack-up.” @hawthorne.bsky.social stands on the precipice of a new LA in LARA no. 2. nyra.nyc/articles/pos...