Paulo Mendes da Rocha still channels the energy of a revolutionary. The 81-year-old architect's discourse, usually self-contradictory, is intense, much like the body of work that spans his 50-year ...
This article was originally published on Common Edge. "I hate this whole ‘beauty’ thing,” says a deeply talented architect and professor friend, reacting to an emerging ripple in the zeitgeist. He is ...
We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 – 1990” at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after ...
Joan Didion reminded me a few times: A few times our paths crossed: My portrait of John and Joan: Our origins: Our education: Our migration. Oh, I have teamed up in some fashion with Homer, ...
It’s year four of the AJ Writing Prize, a celebration of new architectural criticism, brought to you in association with Berman Guedes Stretton. This year we called for short essays that explored ...
Art and Architecture of Ireland has been compiled by a community of scholars committed to overcoming any view of the visual arts as the poor relation in a country celebrated for its literature – a ...