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Marianela D'Aprile

is a writer in Brooklyn. She is the deputy editor of New York Review of Architecture. Her work has been published widely, including in The Nation, Jacobin, and Metropolis.
Latest Stories
Sweetness and PAU-er

In Williamsburg, a new office building rises from within the Domino Sugar refinery

No Longer Forgotten

Penn exhibition surfaces the story of Minerva Parker Nichols, the first American woman to have an independent architecture practice

“Until real heroes bloom, / this dusty plinth will wait”

Theaster Gates participates in The Monument We Make symposium at Drexel in Philadelphia

Spatializing Reproductive Justice

After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a network of women architects studies abortion using the tools of architecture

actor playing robert moses stands over graphic map
The Sour Broker

Ralph Fiennes plays an angry Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy

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Changing and Expanding

For advancement in today’s world, women architects need more than books

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The Right Relationship With Change

Queer Spaces makes room for the term’s inherent expansiveness

Modernity for the Masses

A new book explores Antonio Bonet’s grand plans for Buenos Aires public housing

crowds gather outside a banner for Salone del Mobile
The Great Refresh

Salone del Mobile returns to its old self

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Or Can It?

“Can this be? Surely this cannot be?” explores the history of architecture unionization across the pond

The vessel, a bronzed target of attack for architecture criticism in recent years
Real Talk

Op-ed: Who cares if a building is advancing a theoretical architectural idea if that idea looks bad?

View onto the skyline of chicago with a call to decolonize architecture
Architecture’s Colonial Reckoning

Calls to “decolonize” architecture have been gaining support, but what does this actually mean?

interior photograph of a contemporary art gallery designed by Balkrishna Doshi
Mind the Cliché

Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People gets the order right, puts people before architecture

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Pieces of Edith

The Farnsworth House gets period decor in an effort to shine light on its mysterious owner

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