In the wake of the movement for Black life, a critique of Brutalist conservation and architectural culture, based on my experiences teaching and learning in Minneapolis and New York.

How might writing groups broaden the mandate of academic societies to better support not just the dissemination and recognition of research, but also its production? Discussing their ambitions in organising a writing group, Sonali Dhanpal, Sben Korsh and Y.L. Lucy Wang explain how this format is especially suited to nurture emerging projects on…[Read more]

“Sben Korsh and Maxime Decuadin ground their research.”

In “Raising a Family in the Academy,” Architecture Lobby members Joy Knoblauch, Sben Korsh, Brent Sturlaugson, and Olivier Vallerand challenge the longstanding culture of architecture schools that equates dedication to family life and other types of caregiving with a lack of commitment to teaching and scholarship. Rather than exclude families, the…[Read more]

A book of some fifty texts by workers who discuss the social, economic, and political value of their labor in architecture. The contributors are architectural historians, writers, researchers, professors, students, and practitioners, including:

Felipe Aravena, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Daniel A. Barber, Chris Barker, Nick Beech, Joaquin Díez…[Read more]

Inspired by the scholars, activists, and everyday citizens who spoke out, marched, and protested against police killings of African-Americans, we present this collection of short essays that put Black lives at the center of our thinking about architecture and its history.

Review of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain’s Annual Symposium, “Architecture, the Built Environment, and the Aftermath of the First World War,” organized by Neal Shasore (University of Liverpool) at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 8-9 June, 2018.