SELECTED ESSAYS
Nationalism’s Long Shadow
Review of Architecture and the Right to Heal by Esra Akcan
Architectural Record, April 2026 →
In Search of the Ordinary
Excerpt from Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs
Mas Context, March 2026 →
A Special Collection
On SANAA’s Taichung Art Museum and Library
Architectural Record, February 2026 →
What Happens in Vegas
On visiting Las Vegas in dark times
Architectural Record, June 2025 →
History dans le Boudoir
Review of The Architecture of Influence by Amanda Reeser Lawrence
New York Review of Architecture, July/August 2024 →
Safe Space
On the shifting architecture of atrocity
Architectural Record, June 2024 →
High Line
On Nuno Brandão Costa’s Porto Intermodal Terminal
Architectural Record, January 2024 →
Heavenly Bodies: The Sphere and the Promise of a New Earth
Architectural Record, December 2023 →
Inside the Box
On the Perelman Performing Arts Center and the unfulfilled promises of Ground Zero
Architectural Record, October 2023 →
Power Move
On the industrial nostalgia of Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts
Architectural Record, July 2023 →
Like a Prayer
On the Abrahamic Family House and the problem of assessing architecture in the Persian Gulf
Architectural Record, June 2023 →
Drama Queen
On OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center
Architectural Record, December 2022 →
A Pound of Theory
Review of Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, ed. K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder
Architectural Record, October 2022 →
Learning from Frank Furness
Extant, Spring 2021 →
Fashion Victims
On the renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego by Selldorf Architects
Architectural Review, February 2019 →
Photo: Iwan Baan
BOOK & JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Architecture Against War: Rethinking Autonomy at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in Ruth Verde Zein and Wilfried Wang, eds., Architecture Between Autonomy and Engagement, Park Books (Zürich: 2026). Forthcoming.
Visiting Denise
in Iwan Baan, Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses, Lars Müller Publishers (Zürich: 2024).
Interview with Ievgeniia Gubkina
in Ievgeniia Gubkina, Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime: Essays, Interviews, and Manifestos, DOM (Berlin: 2023), 66-71.
Louis I. Kahn and the Frank Furness Connection
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,October 2021, 266-304.
Louis Kahn and Group ‘55
in Sam Feinstein, Group ’55, and Midcentury Abstraction in Philadelphia, Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia: 2020), 86-93.
Building Chronology
in George E. Thomas, First Modern: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia: 2017). 123-126.
OTHER PROJECTS
Love Here: The Life and Death of Queer Public Space
Exhibition held at the Yale School of Architecture in 2024, co-curated with Jaime Solares Carmona and Yaxuan Liu.
Structure & Purpose: The Legacy of Engineering at Keast & Hood
Exhibition held at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in early 2020 on the structural engineers Nick Gianopulos, Tom Leidigh, and Carl Baumert.
Design Yard Sale
Online fundraiser for racial justice held in summer 2020 that sold creative work donated by designers around the globe.