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Irénée Scalbert: Earth City Architecture.

July 03, 2026

After the exhaustion of modernist functionalism and Koolhaasian bigness, architecture should be reconceived within the limits of the earth, as craft, stewardship, locality and bricolage. In short, architecture is just more complicated than that. So suggests Irénée Scalbert, architectural critic and historian, in his recent book, Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture, published by park Books this year,The title image of the totem — an object whose power comes from its correct form and from i...

Jo Farb Hernández: Artists as architects.

June 26, 2026

For Immanuel Kant, an aesthetic experience required four conditions: disinterestedness, universality, purposiveness and necessity. Architecture, as such, has always struggled with this, because its appreciation is fundamentally tied to a sense of its utility – as shelter, symbol, status, want – and its designedness evidence of its adherent beauty relative to its purpose.Artist made architecture of the sort documented in scholar, author, folklorist and former director and curator of SPACES, Jo...

Winka Dubbeldam: Architecture and hybridity.

June 18, 2026

What if buildings could free themselves – or be freed by their architects – of the stricture of type, of discrete identity, of typology? What might happen if, for example, a school and a house - schoolness and houseness – were hybridized? What if building and non-building, even, were wedded? Might this, perhaps, offer a way to negotiate, heal even, the nature-architecture divide?This is not pompous and pretentious speculation, but the proposal of Winka Dubbeldam, founder-director of Archi-Tec...