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Why Can’t the World’s Best Architects Build Better Web Sites?
Some of the worst offenders, according to Walker, are (left to right) Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas' OMA, Jean Nouvel, and Renzo Piano.Writing for Fast Company, Alissa Walker sings the praise of the new...
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Superheroes & the Modern City
Map of Utopia (1595), Action Comics #8 (1939)Star Wars Modern has posted an extensive essay on the evolution of American superheroes, particularly Batman and Superman, and their relationship to...
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2010 Edition
This month we add another 20 to the growing list of the Powerless 20 we published last year to mark the painful rite of passage that is Art Review’s hilarious Power 100 list.Here’s to hoping you’re not...
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Festival of Ideas Animates a Gentrified Bowery
Facade projection on St. Patrick's Old Cathedral by Marco Brambilla (all photos by author)Obama laid a wreath at the base of the former World Trade Towers right after Osama had been buried at sea. And,...
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Required Reading
A photo of Berlin from Luna Park's recent trip there. (via flickr.com/lunapark)This week’s list of VIP links was compiled with the help of Kyle Chayka: The New York Review of Book probes why the Coptic...
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Top 10 Things We Are Excited to See in New York: Design/Architecture Edition
Things are changing fast in New York — granted when haven’t they? — but the next few years in particular seem filled with promise to bring fresh architectural and design ideas and monuments that will...
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What Makes a Library a Library?
The San Antonion BiblioTech (Image courtesy NPR.org)The latest controversy striking the tumultuous world of libraries (a very shocking place) is the announcement of a bookless library to open this fall...
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The Architectural Is Always Political
Pieces of the Berlin Wall on East 53rd Street (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)New York’s East 53rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is full of nondescript...
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Remaking the City with Architectural Collage
Cut ’n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist...
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What’s So Fundamental About Rem Koolhaas’s Architecture Biennale
President of la Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta and architect Rem Koolhaas, curator of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition (photo by Giorgio Zucchiatti, courtesy la Biennale di...
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Method Man? Notes on Shigeru Ban’s Pritzker Prize
Shigeru Ban, ‘Paper Log House Kobe’ (photo by Takanobu Sakuma; all images courtesy Shigeru Ban)Earlier today, the Pritzker Foundation named Shigeru Ban as its 2014 Laureate. Focusing on his work in...
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Breaking the Ground Between Art and Architecture
Allan Wexler, “Sheathing the Rift” (2014) (all images courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York)In recent years, the connections between architecture, art, and design have, in many cases, become...
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What Social Media Tells Us About the Venice Architecture Biennale
‘Elements of Architecture’ at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale (all images via La Biennale on Facebook) How do you determine the success of an exhibition — by the number of visitors, the tenor of...
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Architecture Blogger Uses Terrible Rape Metaphor
The OMA-designed Seattle Central Library (photo by Bobak Ha’Eri/Wikipedia) You might think, in the year 2014, that the distastefulness of casual rape metaphors would be obvious. But you’d be wrong! In...
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When Architecture Causes Suffering
The China Central Television Building by Rem Koolhaas (image via Wikimedia) The city of Buckeye, Arizona, recently got a glittering new supermax prison. Designed by DLR Group, an architecture and...
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Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas’s Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
Inside the under-construction Faena Forum in Miami Beach, designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with...
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Chinese Government Has Had It with “Oversized, Weird” Architecture
The Tianzi Hotel (image via @flight965/Instagram) Architects in China apparently need to tone down the quirkiness of their designs and quit erecting buildings that pass as giant pants, penises, and...
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