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Be Like Mike

People Cross Against the Light reminds us how good Michael Sorkin was

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Pulling Back the Curtain

Stage designer Chloe Lamford’s rotating building sets the scene in Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence

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Flagging the Flaws

Reinier de Graaf’s Architecture Against Architecture lays out the architect’s perspective on the profession as it stands

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Hit Play

At Cooper Hewitt, The Art of Noise contextualizes sound ephemera as a building material and means of identity

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City Glue

John Wilson’s History of Concrete poses the material as a metaphor for issues of life and death

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Unreal

Dream Facades argues aspirational architecture serves as essential scaffolding for the fantasies constructed by reality television

Installation view of A World in the Making: The Shakers at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
’Tis a Gift to Be Basic

How much can we learn from the Shakers today? Many artists and designers are trying to find out

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Rural Course

An exhibition at the Knowlton School of Architecture takes us on the road to small-town USA

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Bones and All

New York 2020 chronicles an intense period of building activity and compressive change

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King of Kitsch

A new retrospective of Bruce Goff’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago provides prescient commentary on an architectural profession in flux

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On the Big Screen

As seen at recent film festivals, the latest wave of architecture documentaries capture underappreciated histories

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Unsettling the Past

MONUMENTS exhibition at MOCA presents a postmodern take on a retrograde movement

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Pushing Up Against the Status Quo

AN shares the books reviewed in 2025

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Intriguing Interiors

Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy examines how interiors embody current affairs

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Overlooked Oeuvre

What a Building Does invites rediscovery of architecture in Indiana and the work of architect Evans Woollen

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Practical But “Forbidden” Advice

In Design Against Racism, Omari Souza and contributors show how to develop restorative design practices with communities

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Rooted in Place

Studio Museum pays tribute to Harlem with its first purpose-built home

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Affordability and Durability

The Type V City examines how the spread of wood-frame buildings shaped the economies, social relations, and well-being of five American cities

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