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Beyond Base and Superstructure

In a series of brilliant essays, Critique of Architecture bursts the post-critical bubble

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Bey Is Back

The Chicago Sun-Times gains an architecture critic with the return of Lee Bey

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Not Everybody's a Critic

Urban Omnibus and Urban Design Forum seek applicants for New City Critics fellowship program

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Real Talk

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

Bernard Tschumi’s Lecture

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Prestige TV

Television cemented the idea that architecture was both a rarefied art and key to the good life

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture

Op-ed: Architecture critics have a duty to interrogate inequality in the built environment

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More Than Words

What Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic

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So Long

Blair Kamin is leaving the Chicago Tribune after 33 years

Gannon Does Banham

New Reyner Banham monograph takes readers into the heady times of the ’60s provocateur

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Diversifying Design Reporting

New Architecture Writers program raises underrepresented voices

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Zevi's Eye

A MAXXI exhibit shows Bruno Zevi as a critic of difference

Make Your Voice Heard

How can architecture criticism give everyone a seat at the table?

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An Ear for Architecture

Architects can still learn from Tom Wolfe

Tweetstorm

How has the internet changed architecture criticism?

Critics' Corner

What do architecture critics think of the state of architecture criticism today?

Critically Retrograde

Does Christopher Hawthorne have what it takes to plan for L.A.’s future?

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Another one bites the dust?

Why we need architecture critics more than ever

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