Architecture

Baghdad’s Blank Slate

The massive development projects the Iraqi government has planned for the city seem designed to wipe it clean of its past memories.

Trump’s Culture Wars Come to Architecture

Missing in all the controversy are the economic forces behind the business of building.

Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings, frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

A Vision in Concrete

Boston’s concrete modernist architecture is unsurpassed and widely despised.

Architecture in Extremis

Shigeru Ban receives the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Does he deserve it?

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