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Architecture
Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.
March 26, 2026
Development Design
Underneath picturesque views of palm trees, fruity cocktails in hotel lounges, and day trips to preserved colonial zones lies a history of tourism des…
March 13, 2026
A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre
"Roman theatre" is a term often used to describe the theatre of ancient Italy during the second and third century BCE. Plautus and Terence are referre…
March 12, 2026
Imperial Depths
The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without t…
March 6, 2026
Spaces of Immigration
Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025) follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundatio…
March 6, 2026
Adventurous Vents
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy s…
February 27, 2026
Le Corbusier on Camera
Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann (Birkhaüser, 2024) is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (19…
February 22, 2026
Shakespeare’s House
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Bir…
February 9, 2026
Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages
Dr. Lucy Donkin’s Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2022) illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in whi…
February 3, 2026
Africa's Buildings
Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts …
January 28, 2026
Architecture, Empire, and Trade
Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company (Bloomsbury, 2025) pieces together a new architectural history of West Africa from the high…
January 28, 2026
Building for Belgium
Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural concept…
January 25, 2026
Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925–35
Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925–35 (Getty Research Institute, 2025) tells the story of the Lovell Health House, designe…
January 13, 2026
Spatial Theories for the Americas
To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, land…
January 10, 2026
The Story of the Interior
From traditional nomadic dwellings to state-of-the-art airports, through monumental temples and Baroque palaces to high-rise apartments and high-fashi…
January 7, 2026
Reconstruction
Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate effects and aftermath of the Great War on…
December 29, 2025
How the Country House Became English
How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English c…
December 18, 2025
Lineages of the Global City
War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties…
December 11, 2025
Silt Sand Slurry
Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to th…
December 9, 2025
The Unfinished Metropolis
In The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution (Island Press, 2025), Benjamin Schneider argues that American city-building is a l…
November 30, 2025
Building a Social Contract
The dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dw…