Things I’ve Written
Features from Architect Magazine
- When Reality Upstages a Provocateur March 2020
- The Missed Opportunities of MoMA’s Expansion December 2019
- The High Line At 10 September 2019
- The Seductive Fantasy of Saarinen’s TWA Terminal May 2019
- TEN Arquitectos Designs a Beacon for the Resistance May 2019
- The Waltons Embrace Design Excellence March 2019
- The Smart City That Wasn’t January 2019
- Downsizing the Golden Arches October 2018
- Blokable’s Quest to Disrupt Prefab July 2018
- Learning to Appreciate John Portman June 2018
- A Radical Proposal to Save Union Carbide April 2018
- Anne Tyng and Her Remarkable House February 2018
- The High Line Network Tackles Gentrification October 2017
- The Uncertain Fate of TIGER July 2017
- Affordable Housing in the Age of Trump June 2017
- Rebuild By Design’s Enduring Legacy April 2017
- Public Space in the Trump Era February 2017
- Rethinking the Refugee Camp January 2017
- The Elusive Promise of Big Data November 2016
- Maurice Cox’s Detroit October 2016
- Sandy Hook Rebuilds August 2016
- Hippie Modernism at Cranbrook August 2016
- Did Playboy Mainstream Modernism? June 2016
- The Bargain that Revived Bell Labs May 2016
- Q&A w/ Beatriz Colomina about Playboy May 2016
- How the Salt Shed Happened March 2016
- Calatrava’s Transportation Hub Finally Takes Flight March 2016
- Times Square (Finally) Grows Up December 2015
- Mile High Connections October 2015
- One World and the Rise of the Supertall Deck July 2015
- Moshe Safdie and the Revival of Habitat ’67 May 2015
- Everything I Know About Architecture, I Learned from Wim Wenders April 2015
- The Visionary Place Making of Jon Jerde March 2015
- An Ode to the Remarkably Inventive Career of Michael Graves March 2015
- Letter from Los Angeles: Reviving the River February 2015
- Rediscovering Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Inspired Modernism February 2015
- PoMo Redux: The Revival of the Portland Building February 2015
- Will Houston’s City Plan Transform this No-Zoning Mecca October 2014
- An Ode to Breuer’s Brutalist Whitney September 2014
- Letter from Ground Zero: Delirious World Trade July 2014
- Karen Lantz’s (Mostly) All-American House July 2014
- Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim March 2014
- A Tall Order January 2014
- Next Progressives: Interface Studio Architects September 2013
- Next Progressives: Coastal Resurgence July 2013
- Inside Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects June 2013
- Next Progressives: The Art of Business March 2013
- Should Architects Design Prisons December 2012
Features from Curbed
Columns from Fast Company
America columns from Metropolis
- Handy Containers, April 2011
- Boomtown Blues, December 2008
- Sagatopia, September 2007
- End of the Line, June 2007
- Sweet Silence, April 2007
- Robert Moses Lives, March 2007
- Drop in the Bucket, February 2007
- Searching for the Future, January 2007
- Revenge of the Small, December 2006
- The Vanishing Class, November 2006
- The Revolution that Never Quite Was, October 2006
- Jane Jacobs Revisited, August 2006
- The Virgin Mary is in the Details, June 2006
- Warhol’s Time Machine, November 2005
- Oh Brooklyn, My Brooklyn, August 2005
- The Manchurian Main Street, June 2005
- The Cruise Ship Diaries, May 2005
- The Toothpaste Aisle, February 2005
- Why I Don’t Love Richard Florida, March 2005
- What Comes After Modernism, December 2004
- Pleasantville, November 2004
- A President and His Dog, August 2004
- I am the Uncool Hunter, May 2004
Travel + Leisure
- Atlantis, June 2007
- New Urbanist Florida, February 2007
- Biloxi, March 2006
- Montreal, January 2006
- Putrajaya, January 2005
- Brno, November 2005
- Columbus Circle, January 2004
New York Magazine
- Faulty Towers, March 16, 1998
- New Train of Thought, October 12, 1998
- Demolition Man, April 26, 2004
- Robert Moses Lives, July 12, 1999
Dwell
- The Fruitbowl Manifesto, October 2000
Interviews
- Interview with The Urbanite, Baltimore, May 2005
Bootleg Editions
- “Little Peach, Big Apple”, A 1993 Metropolis “Prototype” column
- “An Existential Guide to Type”, Metropolis, April 1988
- “Utopia Redux” from the on-line magazine, Word 1996