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...

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“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...

Me drinking lavender matchs latte at Caruso malls:

Can’t wait to get mine in the mail, I’m super excited about this issue, lots of favorite writers Check it out:

I would read every issue of the NYR of Arch if it focused on the West Coast. 🤣 But also, shout-out to the publication for hiring actual LA ppl to write about LA! We all know a (famous) NY publication that *should* take some notes.

The latest from mallworld courtesy @cmonstah.bsky.social: An update on Rick Caruso's faux urbanism, post fire @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

Tenancy in common is promoted as a way to make housing more accessible. But so far it’s mostly been used to evade caps on condo conversions and evict rent-stabilized tenants. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/tic...

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We’re doing a sequel! NYRA proudly presents LARA 2. nyra.nyc/lara

New rule, all literary readings should feel like union rallies. Thanks to @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social and all the architects, advocates, policymakers, and impacted families who shared their stories with me. (No thanks to Spencer Pratt.) LARA #2 available soon at nyra.nyc

“‘Joyspace’ contends that the neocon neomods are doomed to failure, because social media is an unstoppable phenomenon that chews up even the most haughty ideology and recuperates it for its own ends.” Huw Lemmey is a killjoy in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/joy...

“All the spectacle really does seem contrived to prohibit actual shopping: It’s been reported that the clothing inventory carries a very limited range of sizes.” Whitney Mallett drinks up Printemps New York in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/ech...

Nantes la rouge et ZAD dans un article de la New York Review of Architecture.‬

“The dwellings that once sheltered a sexual revolution are now collateral in a real estate one, as preservation and precarity compete on the same narrow stretch of scrub.” Eric Schwartau burns for Fire Island’s modernism in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/mas...

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As #NYFF63 opens tonight, now is as good a time as any to revisit my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social round-up of last year’s slate. nyra.nyc/articles/fol...

“It is cartoonish and overwrought and looks more like the mascot of a minor league baseball team than a self-respecting civic monument.” Justin Beal minds the bullocks in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/nev...

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”All I’ll say is that if Lady Whistledown wrote on architecture, she would be working at NYRA." We receive a lot of testimonials, but were so touched by this letter we recently received that we asked the student if we could share them with our audience.

“Why must we ask for permission to open a show or to live in an apartment that is sitting empty, accruing value for an absent owner?” Andreas Petrossiants revisits ABC No Rio in NYRA no. 46/46 nyra.nyc/articles/squ...

“Knickerbocker Village’s record of democratic governance suggests that simply voting blue harder won’t resolve chronic housing issues.” Charlie Dulik inspects a breach in Manhattan’s blue wall in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/kni...

“‘[There’s] something fascinating about seeing something so big come down,’ murmured the man with the mic.” Sue Park attends a memorial for Kingda Ka in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“How much Minecraft is enough? To quote John D. Rockefeller, ‘Just a little bit more.’” Travis Diehl yearns for the metaverse in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/for...

“A bad mood board of good intentions.” — lol via @glindsay.bsky.social

"Rather than a battle for the future of Brooklyn, the conflict over Atlantic Yards devolved into a tug-of-war between competing short-term interests." Willa Glickman attends a screening of “The Battle for Brooklyn” (2011) in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

“Flatness—thinness—means something other than it did in 1912 or 1955. Who, amid the image-thin spectacle of daily life, could think it’s a virtue?” Phil Coldiron immerses himself in "Laura Owens," up last spring at Matthew Marks, in NYRA no 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/imm...

“By Saturday, the pavilions had started to blur into a bad mood board of good intentions. Nordic: Trans. Korea: Cats. Canada: Bacteria. Uruguay: Water. Brazil: Wood. Australia: Sandbox.” Eric Schwartau vernissages in Venice in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/ver...

“Who could have guessed that microcinema was the intersection of the NYRA–New York Post Venn diagram?” Eric Schwartau attends the premiere of Low Cinema in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/skyline/disp...

You’re invited to join us—in Los Angeles—at the launch of the second issue of Los Angeles Review of Architecture! nyra.nyc/larsvp

I walked into a premodernist Broadway theater, and I walked out of a postmodernist commercial tower.” Samuel Stein comes to this place for magic in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/tim...

We definitely built our own website: nyra.nyc Not particularly easy, but people say they like it.

“Buildings themselves serve as construction sites of labor relations.” Happy Labor Day weekend! In honor of the workers of the world, we’re reading Jessica Fletcher’s review of “Building the Metropolis” (@uchicagopress.bsky.social‬) by Alexander Wood in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/we-...