The Master Of Modernism
Published: Tuesday, November 3, 1998 Section: DAILY BREAK , page E1 Source: BY ALEX MARSHALL SPECIAL TO THE DAILY BREAK BACH WROTE his musical masterpieces in the 1700s at a time when many people...
View ArticleWolfe’s Strange Tale of Architecture
In a war of words, the best wielder of them tends to win. So I’m hesitant to disagree with Tom Wolfe, one of the century’s best journalists and a great word wielder. Nevertheless, it bears saying that...
View ArticleA New City Rises From Berlin’s No-Man’s Land
By Alex Marshall and Sally Young Globe Correspondents 11/5/2000 BERLIN – The guard tower and wooden sign over the street warning ”You Are Now Leaving The American Sector!” were still there, as was the...
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Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities
My latest book, “Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities,” was published in late 2006 by Carroll and Graf Publishers. Here’s some basic information on it below, and you can find more on...
View ArticleCold City of Fargo Now Cool
Coolness, as every high schooler knows, is one of those things that’s hard to define but easy to spot among one’s peers. With cities, being cool depends in part on being economically robust and...
View ArticleInfrastructure as Architecture
I’ve started teaching a class on infrastructure at the architecture school at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. See here for more info: NJIT Architecture School The two courses I teach,...
View ArticleCool new book by Stanley Greenberg: Codex
I have in my hands an interesting new book by the photographer Stanley Greenberg, Codex New York: Typologies of The City. In it, Greenberg goes around and takes pictures of largely less-examined parts...
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