SELECTED ESSAYS & ARTICLES

 

Watch my conversation with Moshe Safdie on stage at Penn.
watch

 

I like Ike (and His Memorial)
New York Times, March 23, 2012
read

 

Quoted on the future of the single-family home by Forbes.com.

 

Watch my conversation with Bing Thom on-stage at Penn.
watch

 

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 27, 2012.
Interview with WR about Arne Jacobsen’s Series 7 chair.
read

 

Christmas Architect
Slate, December 21, 2011.
After 7 years,  my last Slate column.

read

 

How to Create a New Suburban Town Center
Slate, December 17, 2011.

read

 

Interview on cities and city life
Grist
read

 

Prevailing over Technology
Joel Garreau’s Prevail Project at Arizona State University, December 1, 2012.
read

 

Postmodernism had a positive effect on architecture. Really.
Slate, November 17, 2011.
read

 

How the Brits stole high tech
Slate, November 2, 2011.
read

 

The great period of American industrial design
Slate, October 12, 2011.
read

 

Civil and Architectural Propriety
Wharton Real Estate Review, Fall 2011.
read

 

Review of Siegfried Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command
Harvard Design Magazine, No. 34, 2011.

 

Black Holes: the 9/11 memorial
Slate, September 7, 2011.
read

 

The Blast-Proof City
Foreign Policy, September 2, 2011.
read

 

Falling for Fallingwater
Slate, August 24, 2011.
read

 

Sorry, This Entrance Is Closed
Slate, August 3, 2011.
read

 

A Memorial for Ike
Slate, July 11, 2011.
read

 

Airline seats and design
Slate, June 8, 2011
read

 

Bringing the High Line back to earth
New York Times, May 15, 2011
read

 

The death of the McMansion
Slate, May 11, 2011.
read

 

The low-key houses of Alvar Aalto
Slate, April 27, 2011.
read

 

Density and the American city
Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2011.
read

 

My take on computers and architecture
Slate, March 30, 2011.
read

 

A pertinent essay from the Atlantic archive
Atlantic, October, 1995.
read

 

How to Save Dying Cities
Slate, March 9, 2011.
read

 

Gehry in Miami
Slate, February 16, 2011.
read

 

On Archispeak
Slate, February 2, 2011.
read

 

Books Every Architect Should Read
Designers & Books, February 1, 2011.
read

 

Interview
Penn Book Center, January 28, 2011.
read

 

Interview
Express Night Out, January 20, 2011.
read

 

The Great Recession’s effect on architecture
Slate, January 13, 2011.
read

 

Interview
BBC World News, January 11, 2011.
read

 

Interview
Dwell, January 1, 2011.
read

 

Digital Architecture
Slate, December 15, 2010.
read

 

Remembering Student Days
McGill University, December 15, 2010.
rad

 

Tall Buildings, Short Architects
Slate, December 2, 2010.
read

 

Interview
Huffington Post, November 30, 2010.
read

 

The Cities We Want, Part II
Slate, November 4, 2010.
read

 

The Cities We Want, Part I
Slate, November 3, 2010.
read

 

A Polish translation of “Why We Live in Houses Anyway”
autoportret, No.2, 2010.
read

 

A new/old Arena Stage
Slate, October 14, 2010.
read

 

Richard Rogers builds in D.C.
Slate, September 22, 2010.
read

 

In praise of ordinary places
Slate, August 18, 2010.
read

 

Michael Graves builds in Singapore
Slate, June 23, 2020.
read

 

Palladio, the godfather of American architecture
Slate, May 19, 2010.
read

 

An empty Guggenheim Museum
Slate, April 14, 2010.
read

 

Why planning is not the answer to our troubled cities
Slate, March 31, 2010.
read

 

Why the Bauhaus still matters
Slate, March 10, 2010.
read

 

The tallest building in the world
Slate, January 13, 2010.
read

 

On Christopher Alexander
Slate, December 2, 2009.
read

 

On Gussie Saint-Gaudens
Slate, November 4, 2009.
read

 

On the new Barnes
Slate, October 14, 2009.
read

 

Why cities are green
Atlantic, October 2009.
read

 

Too much Frank Gehry is too much
Slate, September 23, 2009.
read

 

1967, A Polish visit
Cosmopolitan Review, August 15, 2009.
read

 

A piece of Bavaria in New York
Slate, August 26, 2009.
read

 

Whither the airport?
Slate, July 22, 2009.
read

 

On language and friendship
American Scholar, Summer 2009.
read

 

A visit to the Glass House
Slate, July 1, 2009.
read

 

How high is your ceiling?
Slate, May 20, 2009.
read

 

The newest addition to the National Mall
Slate, April 29, 2009. read