This is my response to the first assignment in the Architectural Imagination course I'm taking online from the Harvard Graduate … More
Author: rmprouty
The Architectural Imagination: An Introduction
I've enrolled in my first online course: The Architectural Imagination, offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I completed … More
Hanne Darboven and the Endless Archive
Cynthia Cruz sees a lot of Walter Benjamin in Hanne Darboven's Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983, currently on exhibit at Dia:Chelsia. The exhibit … More
An American Albert Speer Might Look a Lot Like Philip Johnson
Ian Volner laments how American culture has produced only one fascist with any real panache–Philip Johnson. [I]n our present political … More
The Art of Wall Along the Mexican Border
Donald Trump is about to order the building of a wall along the US-Mexican border. As people who live in … More
The Literature of Traumas to Come: The Novel in the Age of Trump
In the days leading up to the election last November, many people vowed if Donald Trump was elected they … More
The Landscapes of John Berger
Late in his career John Berger retreated in the foggy mists of the French countryside, reappearing every so often with … More
Reading Cities as a Flâneuse
You were drawn to many cities but Paris is very much central. Given the overlap between existing places and the … More
The Destiny-Filled Glare of Napoléon
One of the lasting impressions left by Abel Gance’s film Napoléon (1927), now showing in a new, digitally remastered print … More
Marketing at the Limits of Language
It’s a strange kind of language, all modifiers bleached lifeless by cliché, employing the most grandiose terms (‘discover,’ ‘transformational,’ ‘revolution’) … More
One-Way Street 