Review: Reinier de Graaf’s radical chic

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

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Christopher Hawthorne
February 13, 2026

The cover of Reinier de Graaf’s latest. Courtesy Verso

The message of Reinier de Graaf’s new book, “Architecture Against Architecture,” might be summarized as follows: Do what I say, not what I (during a comfortable, presumably lucrative, and generally careerist path through the architecture profession) have done.

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