About this Blog

Posts are sporadic. Topics span architecture, urban design, planning, and tangents from these. I sometimes include excerpts of academic articles.

Authored by:

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  Mitch McEwen Princeton, NJ, US

Recent Entries

• How to Read a Croissant / Unfolding Spatial Violence III of III
  May 24 '24
• How to Read a Croissant / Unfolding Spatial Violence II
  May 8 '24
• How to Read a Croissant / Unfolding Spatial Violence
  May 2 '24
• Are you from West Virginia?
  Oct 16 '21
• Transitions of Power
  Sep 23 '20
• On the White House Rose Garden “Renovation”
  Aug 27 '20
• Stay Black and Die: A Possible Ethos for Architecture
  Jul 25 '20
• Stop Wasting Our Time
  Jun 24 '20
• Thoughts on Juneteenth: The Paradox of Pausing
  Jun 19 '20
• Interracial Dancing and Use-Based Zoning
  Oct 29 '19
• Abolish ICE
  Jun 25 '19
• What we allow ourselves to know
  Dec 27 '17
• Profound Modernity in Mexico City
  Oct 31 '17
• Drawing bombs
  Jul 24 '17
• Notes on time travel
  Apr 16 '17
• We Are Not Innocent
  Mar 23 '17
• Geometry doesn't have to be white - on Descartes, Baldwin, and grids
  Feb 20 '17
• Watercraft - on Detroit's subsidy to its suburbs & slum clearance by infrastructure pricing
  Feb 15 '17
• A Short Piece of Fiction on the Aesthetics of Nuclear Fallout
  Feb 5 '17
• Interview w/ Sampsonia Way of Pittsburgh-- reparations, algorithms, autonomy and Black American poetics, gentrification, and other topics
  Jan 12 '17
• The White Flight from American Democracy
  Dec 27 '16
• Another Review of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale / Insider’s Perspective from the US Pavilion
  Jul 1 '16
• Teaching Representation versus Fabrication
  Apr 10 '16
• Miami Beach (a semi-private party that might continue above the flood)
  Jan 10 '16
• Detroit Detroit Detroit
  Jun 19 '15
• Interviewing a sociologist about equality, neighborhoods, and everyday people
  Mar 23 '15
• I Can't Breathe = You Can't Dance
  Jan 19 '15
• 90's Throwback: Rem + Mies
  Nov 23 '14
• Affording Mies
  Nov 4 '14
• Interview with Keller Easterling about Subtraction
  Aug 26 '14
• When an emerging design firm gets an office in downtown Manhattan for $1
  Jul 30 '14
• DS+R Scanning Beyond Fashion #NOTinVenice
  Jun 10 '14
• Interviewing a French Literature Scholar about Style, Sexiness, Politeness, and Power
  Mar 24 '14
• Her analogous city
  Mar 10 '14
• How do architects fail?
  Feb 20 '14
• Detroit House Opera
  Feb 7 '14
• Mumbai Anthropocene
  Dec 28 '13
• James Turrell and Robert Irwin
  Aug 12 '13
• Primate is doubly digital
  Jul 8 '13
• Mobile office
  Jun 6 '13
• Istanbul, the Bosphorous, Corbusier's sketches, Rex
  May 20 '13
• Peter Zumthor's Kunsthaus Bregenz
  May 6 '13
• Messe Basel - when big architecture knows its neighborhood
  Apr 15 '13
• [Not Luxury] concept furniture
  Mar 14 '13
• Chess master visits architecture workshop
  Mar 6 '13
• Write your manifesto in 60 - 80 words
  Feb 13 '13
• Parameters of chess
  Feb 4 '13
• Sweating Tanks at Tate
  Jan 24 '13
• Ceci n'est pas un BMW
  Dec 29 '12
• Brunelleschi = BIM
  Dec 24 '12
• GIS across borders
  Dec 14 '12
• Learning from stinkbugs
  Dec 10 '12
• How to Live
  Dec 2 '12
• Le Corbusier or Hans Scharoun?
  Nov 27 '12
• Modernity and ideology
  Nov 24 '12