While not architecture, exhibitions and books are essential to informing, challenging, critiquing, and encouraging designers of all stripes. Here we’ve gathered some of our best reviews of 2016. (See the rest of our Year in Review 2016 articles here.)
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
By Christine Cipriani
AN Lions: 20 must-see things at the 2016 Venice Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
By William Menking, Matt Shaw, Matthew Messner
Detroit in Venice: The U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
By Matthew Messner
Transitional Object (Psychobarn)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Jimmy Stamp
Playboy Architecture, 1953–1979
Elmhurst Art Museum
By Andrew Santa Lucia
No more weird architecture in Philadelphia: a retroactive manifesto for the AIA National Convention
AIA National Convention
By Fred Scharmen
Ost Und oder West [East and West]
P! Gallery
By Jesse Seegers
Free Roses
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA)
By Ryan John King
Palladio Virtuel
Yale University Press
By Nancy Goldring
A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form
Lars Müller Publishers
By Carlos Brillembourg
Superstudio 50
MAXXI
By Peter Lang
Early Women of Architecture in Maryland
AIA Maryland Gallery
By Fred Scharmen
The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
Acanthus Press
By Ben Koush
What do New Yorkers get when privately-funded public art goes big?
By Audrey Wachs
Dream of Venice Architecture
Bella Figura Publications
By Robert Landon
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Princeton Architectural Press
By Ariel Rosenstock
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
MoMA
By Zach Edelson
Vertical Urban Factory
Actar Publishing
By Owen Hatherley
Mind Your Mannerisms
Jai & Jai Gallery
By Antonio Pacheco
Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog
Princeton Architectural Press
By Charles Holland
