Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 30, 2024
Portside
Oscar fever
Oscar fever
Oscar fever
This Week in People’s History, June 27–July 3
International law? What's that? in 1986. First marches for Gay Pride in 1970. Saving a bridge in 1923. Torturers unwelcome in 1980. Bronx hospital patients first in 1970. Guantanamo opens in 1903. Gettysburg in 1863.
labor
Architects Are Starting To See Themselves As Workers — And Organizing Unions
Jacobin
Though architects have long been seen as privileged creative professionals, they are finding themselves in increasingly de-skilled and exploitative work environments. It’s no wonder that they’re starting to unionize.
Friday Nite Videos | December 24, 2021
Portside
Chile 2021: Leftwing Millennial to Be New President. Chile 1973: Manifiesto | Victor Jara. ‘Surprising Is An Understatement’: Kim Potter Verdict. Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty. Fauci Holiday Message Cold Open | SNL.
Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
Manhattan’s skyscrapers aren’t really built for people anymore.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - November 9, 2021
Portside
The wages of wokeness
The White House May Impose Classical Style on Federal Buildings
City Lab
The order forbids “artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industry” and anyone else involved with this kind of work from participating in these panels.
books
Making Low-Tech 'Dumb' Cities Instead of 'Smart' Ones
The Guardian
An architect surveys ancient ideas about making cities with an eye to using them to help tackle current urban design challenges.
Do We Deserve to Heal?
Boston Society of Architects
In this era of memorial building, how do we acknowledge history and spur justice?
books
Making the Invidious Border Wall Artful
London Review of Books
Attempting to make a silk purse out of a proverbial sow's ear, the author and the volume's contributors envision, either realistically or ironically, how building a wall on the U.S.- Mexican border could be artistically or environmentally pleasing, leaving aside ethical questions of migrants' rights or even how such a wall would be anything but a glaring insult to those living south of it.
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