Architecture has always been more than bricks and mortar. It is equally constructed through words, ideas, and narratives. From ancient treatises to radical manifestos, from technical manuals to poetic ...
Koolhaas' journalism work won him fame in architecture before he completed a single building. The switch from storyteller to architect was more a change in the script than a professional shift. He ...
The updated version of ChatGPT, released last month, has launched a thousand thinkpieces about how artificial intelligence (AI) should be used. This chat bot, powered by OpenAI, responds to questions ...
Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion, a newish volume edited by the design research group Space Caviar, is provocative and timely in a way that much contemporary architecture ...
In a new fellowship to support young voices in architecture, three Pratt Institute students wrote about issues in design that are important to them for the Architect’s Newspaper. New Voices in ...
Writers who take on architecture have it rough. From a two-dimensional page, they must conjure three-dimensional grandeur; their words must help readers envision spaces that were meant to be ...
Bette Hammel was in her 80s and thrilled at the prospect of flying high above Lake Minnetonka in a powered parachute to check out the homes she loved from the sky. “She couldn’t wait to get in that ...
The “S” of Antonio Basoli’s “Alfabeto Pittorico,” built as a crypt (1839 engraving) (all images via Sploid) In the 19th century, an Italian artist created an architectural alphabet in which letters ...
Sacha Frey is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. She is an educator with over 20 years of experience teaching writing and critical theory to art and ...