"I’m interested in urbanism, city planning, housing and social affairs, the environment and health, politics and culture—in all the ways we live, in other words, and not just in how buildings look or who designs them, although those things are inseparable from the rest," writes new New York Times architecture critic in his opening letter today. "Who uses works of architecture, and how, and who benefits from them and who doesn’t, also matters, obviously, and from Colombia to Coney Island, Dubai to Detroit, ways of rethinking these issues have already begun to reshape thinking in architecture schools and offices and beyond." [NYT]
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