Weekly dispatches on architecture, design, and cities

Punching up since 2025

Whatever happened to the presidential library?

Ahead of the Obama Center opening next month, a road trip to Hyde Park reveals how far we’ve drifted from the original model

What a brilliant exhibition on Viollet-le-Duc says about our own architectural and cultural moment

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