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Architecture

Arts Religion

Zion on the Prairie

On the visionary architecture and disturbing goals of Yearning for Zion, the utopian experiment undertaken in rural Texas by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Adam Marcus Museo Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

Arts

Can Rem Koolhaas Kill the Skyscraper?

A globe-trotting, pre-CCTV profile of architect Rem Koolhaas.

Daniel Zalewski New Yorker Mar 2005 45min Permalink

Arts World

The Miracle in Bilbao

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

Herbert Muschamp New York Times Magazine Sep 1997 20min Permalink

Arts History Politics World

The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Nov 2007 20min Permalink

Tech

The Dymaxion Man

Buckminster Fuller reconsidered.

Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Jun 2008 15min Permalink

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