Design Observer
Feb 2013
Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.
Design Observer
7 articles
Design Observer
May 2012
"I turned to see Eva padding around the room, naked, dipping a small plastic wand into the bottle of bubble soap she’d bought at the market... Sometime in the far future, when I was lying on my deathbed, I said, this was the moment I wanted to remember."
On the relationship between travel and photography.
Design Observer
Mar 2012
An essay on craft, excerpted from Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities.
Design Observer
Jan 2011
When (temporary) cities swell; a short history of the Burning Man festival.
Design Observer
Feb 2010
The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.
