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The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.
by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on October 19, 2018

The Lost World of the Middlebrow Tastemaker

Journalist Elizabeth Gordon had unsparing opinions about the inadequacy of both mainstream and elite notions of design.
by Anthony Paletta via The American Conservative on June 8, 2018

The Curse of an Open Floor Plan

The flowing, connected interior has become ubiquitous, and beloved. But it promises a liberation from housework that remains a fantasy.
by Ian Bogost via The Atlantic on May 17, 2018
Vintage print of the Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Ella Howard via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018
Southdale mall

How the Cold War Shaped the Design of American Malls

America's first mall was designed as an insular utopia, providing shelter and a controlled environment during uncertain times.
by Marni Epstein-Mervis via Curbed on June 11, 2014
Bethlehem Steel Mill.

The Steel Mill That Built America

Bethlehem Steel was the birthplace of skyscrapers, bridges, and battleships. What happened after the plant's furnaces went cold?
by Matthew Christopher via Atlas Obscura on February 25, 2025
Faneuil Hall in Boston at night.

Why Faneuil Hall Is a Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras.
by Michael Snyder via Smithsonian on January 8, 2025
A very large American home with three garages.

The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions

How gang-nail plates led to bigger homes.
by Stewart Hicks via YouTube on December 12, 2024
Map of Central Park.

How Central Park Holds the Answers to Big NYC Secrets

From ancient Native American trails to billion-year-old rocks, take an in-depth look at the thousands of years of history housed inside this iconic park.
via Architectural Digest on September 19, 2024
1920s advertisement for a home refridgerator.

Homing Devices: Women’s Home Planning Scrapbooks, 1920s—1950s

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.
by Andrew M. Shanken via Platform on July 22, 2024
Four women reading books inside a room at a women's boarding house.

At the Webster Apartments: One of Manhattan’s Last All-Women’s Boarding Houses

A look inside an enduring home for women 100 years after its doors first opened to residents.
by Tess Little via The Paris Review on May 28, 2024
Disabled children learning in a classroom at Washington Boulevard School.

Disabling Modernism

During the first decade of the New Deal, modernist architects designed schools for disabled children that proposed radical visions of civic care.
by David Serlin via Places Journal on May 15, 2024
Oscar Wilde

“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

On the Irish writer’s grand tour of the Gilded Age United States.
by Rob Marland via Literary Hub on March 11, 2024
Cartoon of California and Colorado talking about suburban housing.

Orange County, Colorado

How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West.
by Caroline Tracey via New York Review Of Architecture on February 19, 2024
Sheboygan Indian Mound Park.

Sheboygan's Indian Mound Park was Saved by a Garden Club and Newspaper Campaign

Earthen Indigenous burial mounds were created in the shape of birds, reptiles and mammals.
by Gary C. Klein via Sheboygan Press on October 12, 2023
Prehistoric mounds on the campus of Louisiana State University.

Googling for Oldest Structure in the Americas Leads to Heaps of Debate

The straightforward way in which Google answers this query is a case study in how new science becomes accepted as fact in the modern era of rapid communication.
by Jordan P. Hickey via Washington Post on August 28, 2023
Photo collage of L.J. Davis, Jervis Anderson, and a street map

The Invention of a Neighborhood

In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame.
by Jonathan Lethem via The New Yorker on August 21, 2023
Winding section of Highway 42 in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's Long and Winding Road Has a Secret Past

For decades, locals believed landscape architect Jens Jensen designed this twisty stretch of Highway 42—the real history is even more serpentine.
by Tea Krulos via Atlas Obscura on August 15, 2023
Universal HipHop Museum construction site.

On 50th Anniversary, Hip Hop Rises Again in the Bronx

The Universal Hip Hop Museum is poised to bring an economic and cultural infusion to the borough where the genre was born and bred.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on August 11, 2023
Myrlie Evers-Williams sitting at a table, and a police photo on the wall above a bullet hole.

Medgar Evers Battled for Civil Rights. His Home Shows What It Cost Him.

NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated 60 years ago. His wife, the activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, has fought for his civil rights legacy ever since.
by DeNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on June 11, 2023
Exchange Coffee House illustration

The First American Hotels

In the eighteenth century, if people in British North America had to travel, they stayed at public houses that were often just repurposed private homes.
by Livia Gershon, Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz via JSTOR Daily on May 26, 2023
Detail of atlas of the city of Boston, Boston Proper and Back Bay, Plate 9.

Building Blocks

An exhibition exploring the connections between the environment and social justice, using maps and visual materials.
by Laura Lee Schmidt via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on January 13, 2023
Titian room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1903.

It Belongs in a Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art.
by Nathaniel Silver, Diana Seave Greenwald via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 7, 2022
Thomas Edison with a model of his concrete house, ca. 1911

Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World

A real (but mostly forgotten) patent conjures a world that could have been.
by Anthony Acciavatti via The Public Domain Review on December 1, 2022
Black and White image of two of Co-op City's monumental towers.

A City Within A City

Robert Moses' final project, Co-op City, both reflected and defied major trends in New York City.
by Katie Uva via The Metropole on November 9, 2022
A picnic prior to a concert in the lyceum series at Pied Beauty Farm, 2019.

American Barn

The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.
by Joshua Mabie via Places Journal on October 11, 2022
Earthen mounds at Louisiana State University.

Oldest Human-made Structure in the Americas Is Older Than the Egyptian Pyramids

The grass-covered mounds represent 11,000 years of human history.
by JoAnna Wendel via Live Science on August 26, 2022
Picture of an ornate door knocker.

What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities

Laws meant to safeguard great buildings and neighborhoods can also present an obstacle to social progress.
by Jacob Anbinder via The Atlantic on May 2, 2022
Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted (detail), 1895, by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925); The Artchives/Alamy Stock Photo.

The Man Who Built Forward Better

Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape creations, especially his urban parks, remain a vital part of our present.
by Witold Rybczynski via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2022
Window in the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde.

Is Colorado Home to an Ancient Astronomical Observatory? The Question Is Testing Archaeological Limits.

Did Ancestral Puebloans watch the skies from Mesa Verde's Sun Temple? Solving its mysteries requires overcoming archaeology’s troubled past.
by David Gilbert via The Colorado Sun on December 19, 2021
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