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Local Cities, Global Problems
What do we do with Jane Jacobs?
The Elementalist
A profile of architect Brad Cloepfil.
Rare Bird
At the park with the plane spotters, for the New Yorker.
Plug+Play Construction
KieranTimberlake's Loblolly house is a finer grain of pre-fab.
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning
The famous design firm graduates to cities. Poof. From Metropolis
Art Capturing Art Capturing Art Capturing...
Jonathan Safran Foer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Serra and Tadao Ando mix it up in the New York Times.
Storm Center
Thom Mayne gives NOAA's satellite guys a new home. Which they sort of like. A saga in Wired.
Lifestyle Centers
New malls that lie about how public public space really is. A polemic in Slate.
Rwanda
An essay on being a genocide tourist in Rwanda, from the New York Times.
MoMA's Logo
Along with its building, the Museum of Modern Art renovated its logo. Sort of.

Jet Wash
Clean engines for a clean planet.
Let There Be Light
Testing buildings beneath the artificial sky.
Made in the Shade
Jeanne Gang cools off Chicago.
Plug+Play Construction
KieranTimberlake's Loblolly house is a finer grain of pre-fab.
Storm Center
Thom Mayne designs a satellite HQ for NOAA.
Supertall Engineer
SOM's Bill Baker goes to 150 stories.

Building a Better Soundtrap
Arup does acoustics.
The White Zone is for Loading and Unloading Art
Art in the Toronto airport.
How to Make a Building Fly
Will Alsop in Toronto.
A Serra Sculpture Emerges From Its Tomb
The art-world gods must have a strong sense of irony.
The Modern's Other Renovation
MoMA gets a new logo, same as the old one.
Art Capturing Art Capturing Art Capturing...
Jonathan Safran Foer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Serra and Tadao Ando mix it up.

This isn't a blog, but a collection of my published articles-- on architecture, urbanism, design, art, technology and travel. I'm a contributing editor at Wired and Metropolis magazines, living in New York. You can find an archive of articles here and more bio and contact info here.
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Change Is Good
Bruce Mau is unafraid to tangle with the status quo.
Dreaming in Code
Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity.
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning
Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process?
Model World
Olivo Barbieri’s photographs.
Planning Rwanda
Thirteen years after the genocide, OZ Architecture and EDAW imagine the physical future of Rwanda.
Sound Barrier
A musical art piece approaches the delicate subject of suicide prevention with an affirmation of life.
The Active Edge
Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Brooklyn Bridge Park seems destined to become New York's third great urban landscape.
The Elementalist
Brad Cloepfil’s emerging body of work may symbolize a shift away from glib shape-making toward a more timeless and lasting architecture.
The Peace Maker
As he works on the landscape at the de Young museum in San Francisco, observers wonder: can Walter Hood bridge the divide between public space and in-your-face architecture?