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Favorite Articles

Air Repair
Redesigning New York City's skies, in WIRED.
The Long View
James Corner and the future of landscape architecture.
Saint Brad
In New Orleans with architecture's most important patron.
Local Cities, Global Problems
What do we do with Jane Jacobs?
The Elementalist
A profile of architect Brad Cloepfil.
Rare Bird
At the park with the plane spotters, for the New Yorker.
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning
The famous design firm graduates to cities. Poof. From Metropolis
Art Capturing Art Capturing Art Capturing...
Jonathan Safran Foer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Serra and Tadao Ando mix it up in the New York Times.
Storm Center
Thom Mayne gives NOAA's satellite guys a new home. Which they sort of like. A saga in Wired.
Lifestyle Centers
New malls that lie about how public public space really is. A polemic in Slate.

Wired

Surreal Estate
Eric Clough turns a Manhattan apartment into a puzzle palace.
Air Repair
The key to eliminating U.S. flight delays? Redesign the sky over New York City.
Sigma DP
How-to pack an SLR into a pocket cam.
Intel Cash Register
Knows who you are, what you want.
This Is a Skate Park
What boarders teach architects.
Instant Suburb
Prefabs at MoMA.
Impossibly Starck
Talking plastic with Philippe Starck.
Heaven for Hells Angels
Pentagram's Harley-Davidson Museum.
Ocean Current
Climb aboard the world's first marine-energy test bed.
7 Days Later
Green subdivisions are the vaporware of the home-building industry.

Selected Profiles

Michael van Valkenburgh
Designs a park for Brooklyn.
Jeanne Gang
Enthralls Chicago with her laser cutter.
Walter Hood
The Oakland-based landscape architect.
Yabu Pushelberg
Hotel, retail, restaurant designers extroardinaire.
Will Alsop
Maximalist. Makes buildings fly.
Moshe Safdie
Moralist. Keeps buildings close to the ground.
Jane Fulton Suri
IDEO anthropologist/industrial designer.
Bruce Mau
Change is good.

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Random and not-so-random groupings of favorite stories:

Wired features
Burj Dubai engineer Bill Baker
KieranTimberlake's Loblolly House
Morphosis' NOAA Satellite Center

Metropolis profiles
Brad Pitt
James Corner
Brad Cloepfil
Jonathan Harris
Walter Hood
IDEO Smart Spaces
Michael van Valkenburgh
Yabu Pushelberg
Helen Kerr
Bruce Mau
Koning Eizenberg

Wired front of the book
Intel's cash register
What skateboarders teach architects
MoMA's instant suburb
Philippe Starck talks plastics
Harley-Davidson Museum
Wave power
Green subdivision vaporware
Jet bath
Interactive wine list
World's biggest pool
En suite parking garage
Olafur Eliasson @ SFMOMA
Self-shading building
Artificial sky
Building dashboard
Modern double-wide
Interface design

Print Magazine "Desktop" columns
Animation technology
Multiple monitors
Combat photojournalism
Online video
Very big screens
New York Times reader

Small details, carefully observed
Planespotters (The New Yorker)
The subtlety of art 1: Serra, Foer, Ando, Sugimoto (The New York Times)
The subtlety of art 2: MoMA, Mau, Matthew Carter (The New York Times)
The subtlety of art 3: Serra, wall, molten lead (The New York Times)
Suicide barriers 1: Toronto (Metropolis)
Suicide barriers 2: San Francisco (The New York Times)

Polemics
What's wrong with urban planning (Metropolis)
What's wrong with malls (Slate)
What's right with Libeskind (really) (ROM)
Genocide tourism (The New York Times)

Green
Loblolly (Wired)
Thom Mayne (Wired)
George W. (once) (The New Yorker)
Greenbuild (Metropolis podcast)
Solar shading (Wired)
Rio Earth Summit, 1992 (Metropolis)
Eco-tents (The Globe and Mail)

Technology
Living on the network: 2007 (Metropolis)
Living on the network: 2001 (Metropolis)
Living on the network: 2000 (Metropolis)
Telepresence 1 (BusinessWeek Online)
Telepresence 2 (Popular Science)
Interface design for the disabled (Metropolis)

Welcome

This isn't a blog, but a collection of my published articles-- on architecture, technology, urbanism, design, art and travel. I'm a correspondent at WIRED and a contributing editor at Metropolis, but right now I'm writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet, to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in the U.S. & Canada, and Viking in the U.K. You can find loose themes along the sides, an archive of articles here, more bio here, and me in Brooklyn, New York. For editorial inquiries please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at the Zoe Pagnamenta Agency. To sign up for occasional news about the progress of the book please click here. Thanks for visiting.

On the Radio

WNYC - All Things Considered
NYC gets serious about retrofitting green buildings.
NHPR's Word of Mouth
Are cities bad for your brain? Can landscape architecture help?
NHPR's Word of Mouth
Green urbanism.
AIASF's Street Cred
With Thom Mayne talking about the San Francisco Federal Building.
NHPR's Word of Mouth
Green campuses.
KCRW's DnA
What does the Dreamliner have to do with the iPhone?

Urbanism

In Praise of Slowness
Thoughts on writing about the future of the city, on Urban Omnibus.
WNYC - Cityscapes
A month-long blog about NYC's built environment.
The Dream Life of Cities
Libeskind and the future of Toronto.
Fake Cities
The mall goes undercover.
Jane Jacobs in an Age of Global Change
Local cities, global problems.
IDEO does Cities
Exchanging the idea of place for place itself.
Planning Rwanda
An urban planner's dream. An urban planner's curse.

Metropolis

The Big Apple Store
Local Projects and WXY Architecture give New York tourism a 21st-century interface.
Tracking The Future
Obama's New New Deal, as seen through the lens of a young German photographer.
The Long View
James Corner, the High Line, and the future of landscape architecture.
Saint Brad
In New Orleans with Brad Pitt, architecture's most important patron.
Carbon Neutral U
The greening of the American college campus.
Change Is Good
Bruce Mau is unafraid to tangle with the status quo.
Sound Barrier
A musical art piece approaches the delicate subject of suicide prevention with an affirmation of life.
The Peace Maker
As he works on the landscape at the de Young museum in San Francisco, observers wonder: can Walter Hood bridge the divide between public space and in-your-face architecture?
Model World
Olivo Barbieri’s photographs.
The Active Edge
Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Brooklyn Bridge Park seems destined to become New York's third great urban landscape.
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning
Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process?
Dreaming in Code
Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity.
The Elementalist
Brad Cloepfil’s emerging body of work may symbolize a shift away from glib shape-making toward a more timeless and lasting architecture.
Planning Rwanda
Thirteen years after the genocide, OZ Architecture and EDAW imagine the physical future of Rwanda.

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