Aalto designed with the principles of human perceptual psychology in mind.
Writing this essay got me on the path to writing my current book.
Appears in Aalto and America, edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler, published in 2012 by Yale University Press.
The perilous state of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. This was initially published in The New Republic in August 2007. By 2008, everybody was talking about infrastructure, including Barak Obama, and Felix Rohatyn had published a New York Times Op-Ed calling for the creation of a national infrastructure bank.
Not that I singlehandedly motivated policy makers to put infrastructure — far from it. But my piece was tagged on TNR’s cover, and generated a lot of discussion. Eventually, it was republished in this compendium of essays on transportation infrastructure.
Essay on the impact of photography on the design of the Capitol Complexes at Brasilia and Albany, NY.
From the Proceedings of a Conference at the Clark Institute, it appears in a book edited by Anthony Vidler, Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, published in 2008 by the Clark Institute and Yale University Press.
“Architecture as Vocation” examines Safdie’s intellectual development in the context of Team Ten, and emphasizes the importance of Safdie’s urbanism, an under-recognized strength of his wok.
In the collection edited by Barbara Maria Stafford, a brilliant art historian who was one of the first to recognize that the cognitive revolution would change everything we know about aesthetics. In her A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities-Neuroscience Divide (University of Chicago) are essays by eminent scholars on music, art, dance, literature . . . and me, on architecture.
It was just a short essay, but I still like what I wrote.