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Architecture
Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.
August 3, 2026
The British Cemetery
Roger Bowdler and Brent Elliott’s The British Cemetery: Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture, published by Historic England (2026), traces the history o…
August 3, 2026
Palace of the Ether
Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the ar…
August 1, 2026
Empire and Liberty
In Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks (Beacon Press, 2026), historian Dr. Vaneesa Cook examines the history of the Empir…
July 22, 2026
Aviationland
Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026) by Professor Mark Crinson is the first critical study to …
July 3, 2026
Ukrainian Modernism
Ukraine’s modernist buildings are an extraordinary blend of function, avant-garde aesthetics and ingenious design, but despite these qualities, they r…
July 1, 2026
Unruly Monuments
Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal ar…
June 21, 2026
Landscape Fieldwork
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage poi…
June 9, 2026
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture (Routledge, 2024) explores the built inheritance of colonialism and considers how architects, heritage practitioners,…
May 31, 2026
Seeking Abundance
Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improvi…
May 30, 2026
American-Designed Shopping Malls in China
China’s remarkable journey from poverty to becoming the world’s second-largest economic power is marked by extraordinary urban growth and consumpt…
May 27, 2026
Gothic
Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The Act of Union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association wit…
May 22, 2026
Former Synagogues of the United States
Throughout the United States there are buildings that had been home to Jewish houses of worship, schools, and other institutions. What has happened to…
May 15, 2026
Peace Infrastructures
Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly not …
May 2, 2026
Waves Lost at Sea
Waves Lost at Sea (Spector Books, 2026) traces the evolving practice of Cooking Sections, whose work spans visual arts, architecture, and ecology. Sin…
April 25, 2026
Modern New York
In Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today (Rizzoli, 2023), Lukas Novotny calls attention not j…
April 13, 2026
Synagogues of Greece
Across Greece, once-thriving Jewish communities stood for more than two thousand years. From the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina to the great Sephardic cen…
April 5, 2026
Breathing Space
Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (Zone Books, 2026) is a compelling and wide-ranging analysis of pneumatic phenomena in modern cu…
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…