Willis: Walking Thru Walls

By: Geoff Manaugh

While watching Die Hard the other night — one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years — I kept thinking about an essay called “Lethal Theory” by Eyal Weizman — itself easily […]

Read This Post

Highbrow Skyscraper, Lowbrow Plaza

By: Matthew Battles

Susan Sontag pays a visit to the Seagram Building (“gleaming like a switchblade”) to interview architect Philip Johnson. Embedded here with thanks to Joanne McNeil, who posted this at her terrific blog Tomorrow Museum. Sontag’s […]

Read This Post