A weekly dispatch on architecture, design, and cities, from Christopher Hawthorne
Or, How to have your taart and eat it too. Plus: Rem weighs in by email on de Graaf’s call for a mandatory retirement age in architecture
A Punch List correspondent is on the scene. Plus: the architects in the Epstein files, and the Independence Arch goes XXL
Warning: This one’s a bit more gossipy than usual. Plus: The White House ballroom gets a sham hearing; the hero of “Free Solo” goes architectural; and California Forever is back!
When it comes to fraught histories, there are some questions that the left shouldn’t be afraid to confront
Culdesac Tempe, held up as a model, is closer to a cautionary tale. Plus: a bumper crop of design exhibitions to open the year
How the Arc de Trump unveiling soft-launched the Venezuela takeover
Some resources for the semiquincentennial
As we near the first anniversary of the massive Eaton and Palisades fires, it’s become clear that L.A.’s future is your future too; “any place can burn down”
Featuring Mecanoo, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, SANAA, Iman Fayyad, Kisho Kurokawa, and more
Three takes on one house
The backstory is extensive! Plus: Frank Gehry R.I.P.
“My work would be impossible without my fellow immigrants,” he wrote in 2017
