Selected articles, 2000 - present.
Technology & Infrastructure
Time |How Amazon Became the Largest Buyer of Renewable Energy in the World (September 2022) | Among Amazon’s solar panels in the hills of North Carolina
Rest of World |Sea Change (May 2022) | Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it
Time |How America Saved Millions of Dogs—By Moving Them (February 2022) | By land and by air with the dogs
Time |Nuclear Reactors Could Hold the Key to a Green Future (November 2021) | The challenges and necessities of nuclear energy
Time |The Great Chip Race (June 2021) | America's Semiconductor Shortage Is Wreaking Havoc on Our Lives
Road & Track |The Dot & the Map (May 2021) | the story of GPS
Lapham’s Quarterly |Fusion & Magic (Winter 2021) | technology has created marvels that become everyday. Could that save us soon?
Popular Science |Switch (Winter 2020) | a NYC power plant swaps its dirtiest generators for batteries
Protocol | The Future of American Offshore Wind (February 2020) | a Danish company transforms the grid
Time | The Fight for Earth (September 2019) | the tech innovations we need to fight climate change
Time | Inside the Weather Wars (June 2019) | the necessary diplomacy of the weather forecast
Popular Science |Transformers (Summer 2019) | how countries are sharing energy across borders
Popular Science |The Perfect Boat (Spring 2018) | a profile of sailboat designer Bruce Kirby
Popular Science | The Future-Proofing Engine (May 2017) | climate change & infrastructure in Dubai
Vanity Fair | Children of the Drone (June 2013) | a profile of artist James Bridle
Metropolis | Acting Like a Startup (November 2011) | how designers O+A make Silicon Valley work
WIRED | Redesigning the Sky (Feb 2009) | the design of the airspace over NYC
New Yorker | Rare Bird (April 2007) | the A380 arrives in NYC
WIRED | Storm Center (September 2006) | a satellite operations center for NOAA
Metropolis | Living on the Network (April 2007) | a first take on the iPhone
Metropolis | Here but Not Here (April 2011) | social media and design
Metropolis | Apps for Kids (May 2013) | designing for tomorrow’s digital Natives
Cities & Sustainability
Metropolis | IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning (Oct 2006) | redesigning the idea of a city
Urban Omnibus | In Praise of Slowness (Jan 2009) | thoughts on writing about the city
Block by Block | Local Cities, Global Problems (2007) | Jane Jacobs in the anthropocene
Metropolis | Planning Rwanda (Nov 2007) | urban planning for an African nation
New Yorker | George W. Bush Builds His Dream House (July 2000) | news about a ranch in Texas
Profiles
Departures | Can Architecture Spur Social Change? (Sept 2019) |a profile of MASS Design Group
WIRED | The Ultrabuilder (Nov 2007) | a profile of supertall engineer Bill Baker
Metropolis | The Long View (Nov 2008) | a profile of landscape architect James Corner
Metropolis | The Elementalist (July 2007) | a profile of architect Brad Cloepfil
Metropolis | Saint Brad (March 2008) | a profile of Brad Pitt and the challenge of New Orleans
Metropolis | Change is Good (July 2003) | a profile of designer Bruce Mau
Metropolis | The Active Edge (March 2006) | a profile of landscape architect Michael van Valkenburgh
Art
New York Times | Art Capturing Art Capturing Art (Sept 2006) | a prism of Foer, Sugimoto and Serra
New York Times | The Modern’s Other Renovation (Sept 2003) | typographic scrutiny at MoMA
Metropolis | Dreaming In Code (March 2007) | a profile of web artist Jonathan Harris
New York Times | A Serra Sculpture Emerges From Its Tomb (Nov 2003) |irony at SFMOMA
Metropolis | Sound Barrier (March 2003) | a suicide barrier for Toronto
Travel
New York Times | Rwanda's Haunting Present (May 2005) | on being a genocide tourist