Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey.
Author: MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
When Architects Made Worlds
MoMA explores an era of sweeping change, when South Asian architects — pioneering women, among them — redefined the postcolonial era and helped construct new nation states.
Cable Cars Over Jerusalem? Some See ‘Disneyfication’ of Holy City
The architecture of occupation: A planned cable-car network to Jewish holy sites bypasses Palestinians and furthers Israel’s claims over East Jerusalem.
Critic’s Notebook: A France in Turmoil Weeps for a Symbol of Paris’s Enduring Identity
For centuries, Notre-Dame cathedral has enshrined an evolving notion of what it means to be French. As smoke and flames wafted into the sky on Monday, the symbolism was hard to miss.
Critic’s Notebook: France’s Yellow Vests Reveal a Crisis of Mobility in All Its Forms
Mobility is the story of globalization and its inequities. But it is more than trains and automobiles: It includes social and economic movement, too.