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Stephen Zacks

Stephen Zacks

is an advocacy journalist, architecture critic, urbanist, and project organizer based in New York City. A graduate of Michigan State University and New School for Social Research with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities and a master’s in liberal studies, he serves as president of Amplifier Inc., a non-governmental organization imagining the future of planetary governance. He is a regular contributor to Abitare, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, The Architect’s Newspaper, Art in America, Dwell, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Oculus.
Latest Stories
Back to Work

And And And Studio retools a West Coast law office into a warm, inviting interior

Media Pad

Messana O’Rorke reshapes an apartment into an open, materially sophisticated loft

Documenting Activist Design

Art Omi revisited urban interventions with a display of work from four architecture collaboratives

park with waterway and pathways
Grand Junction Glow-Up

Land Collective and HWKN complete a park in Westfield, Indiana, that supports the lives of residents

Reinventing Dealey Plaza

Mark Lamster, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, and MPdL Studio offer a new public terrain for downtown Dallas that addresses its violent past

Manufacturing Home

At CCNY, Mass Support documented the work of SAR, led by John Habraken, and displayed alternate forms of housing

Black Sands

FÖDA and Gensler create a materially rich interior for chef Aaron Bludorn’s latest venture

library reading room
Sorkin’s Stacks

The Spitzer School of Architecture preserves the library of Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform Urban Research in the Sorkin Reading Room

La MaMa exterior
A Resonant Retrofit

Beyer Blinder Belle builds a contemporary theater behind a historic facade for La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

Station to Station

Majora Carter and STUDIO V to transform a 1908 Cass Gilbert train station for Bronxlandia, an event and performance space

night view of gray brick building
Doing Something Different

OPEN Architecture’s Li Hu speaks about the office’s recent cultural projects in China

tall wooden birdhouse
Sounds of Summer

For the Birds, now on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, explores biodiversity through architect-designed follies

Mum’s the Word

The Adams administration promises it will make improvements in New York’s built environment—only it isn’t ready to talk about any of it

A metal triangular building
1967 – 2022

Remembering the expansive legacy of Srdjan Jovanović Weiss

The Strelka Institute in Moscow, where a new research initiative, The Terraforming is based
A Door Closes…

Moscow’s Strelka Institute pauses operations, possibly permanently

A tall, glowing pyramid designed by Agnes Denes
Shedding Light on the Future

The oracular visions of Agnes Denes are on display at The Shed

Aerial photo of snow-covered arctic housing
Ice Cold

Alaska’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center is rethinking how the Circumpolar North builds

A map of the United States with black and white pins stuck into it
A House Divided

Where do the Democratic frontrunners stand on housing?

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