The Elusive Archive
April 23, 2024
Despina Stratigakos— How I wish this book had existed when I was a student pursuing the fugitive histories of women architects! In the 1990s publications on women in architecture were… READ MORE
Tag: architectural history
Reviving the Idea of a “Usable Past”
July 25, 2023
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen— While we often think that being modern means aspiring to leave the past behind with every tick of the clock, reflecting on history is an integral aspect of… READ MORE
Ep. 115 – Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman on Architecture
June 20, 2023
This episode of the podcast features a conversation between Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman, who have between them eight decades of experience in the field of architecture. Witold Rybczynski’s latest… READ MORE
Ep. 94 – Witold Rybczynski Tells the Story of Architecture
November 30, 2022
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Witold Rybczynski about his new book, The Story of Architecture, which follows an elegant, winding, narrative path through… READ MORE
The Fantasy of the “tabula rasa”: Modernist Urbanism in Brazil
November 1, 2022
Adrian Anagnost— Brazilian Experiments Modernist urbanism was rooted in a fantasy of the tabula rasa. City space would be created anew, buildings inserted into blank landscapes — a vision of… READ MORE
Ep. 91 – A Conversation About Architecture and Politics at MoMA in the 20th Century
September 1, 2022
In this episode of our podcast, we talk to architectural historian Patricio del Real about his new book, Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern… READ MORE
The Modernism of Hector Guimard
August 25, 2021
Hector Guimard (1867-1942) was one of France’s greatest Art Nouveau architect/designers. In an exhibition organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in… READ MORE
The Frank Lloyd Wright We Didn’t Know
December 4, 2020
Anthony Alofsin— When you think about Frank Lloyd Wright, you think of him as the architect of the prairies and Chicago, but there’s another story—Wright and New York—that reveals a… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Nicholas Adams on Five Influential Texts
June 17, 2020
Why would anyone write a book about the architect Gordon Bunshaft? The consensus is that he was a rude and unpleasant man and, though he was responsible for the design… READ MORE
Silence and Gordon Bunshaft
November 19, 2019
Nicholas Adams– At times, writing about the architect Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990), former chief designer for the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), was like writing about a sulky teenager…. READ MORE
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