Anthony Paletta

New York

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Writes about things that relate to architecture and things that don't. Opinions are not my own. Always open to work! [email protected]

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Articles

The miniseries of Procrustes: Review of The Leopard on Netflix

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Anthony Paletta

Fitting a novel‘s plot into two hours is an undertaking like jamming Cinderella‘s stepsister’s foot into the glass slipper: You have to hack off toes or full limbs. But this is the age of binge-watching, and directors need to make fewer procrustean compromises to runtime now. Instead, they just make a miniseries, a format that offers the salvation of adequate time.
"David Lynch was a superb director of architecture"

2 months ago | dezeen.com | Anthony Paletta

Late film director David Lynch adored design and architecture and mastered the art of wielding it to evocative effect, writes Anthony Paletta. Any director of consequence will pay close attention to set design in their films, but few design interiors in the real world. Many directors are attentive to the furniture that appears in their work; few are sawing it in their own carpentry workshops. David Lynch was different.
The ambitious and doomed The Brutalist

2 months ago | denvergazette.com | Anthony Paletta

Some kinds of creativity are harder to capture on camera than others. Eureka moments are fairly easy to present in music or occasionally in art. Architecture can have its napkin sketch epiphanies, but the fundamental requirement of the profession is then to tweak these dreams to hold up floors and keep out rain, a process that is often resolutely boring. Perhaps for this reason, there are almost no films about the practice of architecture.
‘Assembly by Design’ Challenges the Accepted Story behind the Design of UN Headquarters in New York

Jan 13, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Anthony Paletta

The typical tale of the design of the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a World Cup match between Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer—refereed by Wallace Harrison—is one that leaves both key players and details out of the story. This is the case convincingly made by Olga Touloumi in her new book, Assembly By Design, which challenges the “artificial” nature of the accepted history surrounding the construction of the UN. Who is on her expanded credit list?
Anthony Paletta, Author at Dezeen

Dec 3, 2024 | dezeen.com | Anthony Paletta

Anthony Paletta is an architecture journalist based in New York City. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bloomberg CityLab, The Architect's Newspaper and Metropolis, among others.
Untapped - Philip Poon

Nov 18, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Philip Poon |Edwin Heathcote |Jesse Dorris |Anthony Paletta

One of the most important moments in art history occurred in 1917, when Marcel Duchamp submitted “Fountain,” a urinal he bought and signed under the pseudonym R. Mutt, to a New York exhibition. “Fountain” was one of Duchamp’s readymades: found, often mundane, mass-produced objects he designated as art. Many consider this moment the birth of conceptual art—art about ideas rather than skill or materials. An artist didn’t even have to make anything.
Weiss/Manfredi and Reed Hilderbrand find new solutions for old problems at Longwood Gardens’ West Conservatory

Oct 29, 2024 | archpaper.com | Anthony Paletta |Kristine Klein

Conservatories come in Crystal Palace and space frame forms, but they’ve never arrived quite like Weiss/Manfredi’s West Conservatory at Longwood Gardens. Located in Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Creek Valley, the 1,100-acre garden, once the estate of Pierre S. du Pont (heir and executive within that industrial empire), opened to the public in 1921 and has operated as a nonprofit since 1946.
Roche-Dinkeloo’s Pyramid Office Park in Indianapolis Gets a Refresh

Oct 29, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Anthony Paletta

You will find single modern pyramids in the United States in Las Vegas and in Memphis. But there’s only one American, Giza-scaled trifecta of such structures, and it’s in Indianapolis, an early Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates project completed in 1972 and newly refurbished by local firm DKGR. Known simply as the Pyramids, the three buildings sit on the northern edge of Indianapolis, directly alongside the city’s beltway in the suburban neighborhood of College Park.
Roche-Dinkeloo’s Pyramid Office Park in Indianapolis Get a Refresh

Oct 29, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Anthony Paletta

You will find single modern pyramids in the United States in Las Vegas and in Memphis. But there’s only one American, Giza-scaled trifecta of such structures, and it’s in Indianapolis, an early Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates project completed in 1972 and newly refurbished by local firm DKGR. Known simply as the Pyramids, the three buildings sit on the northern edge of Indianapolis, directly alongside the city’s beltway in the suburban neighborhood of College Park.
Street Level: Plaza 33 — AIA New York

Oct 21, 2024 | aiany.org | Anthony Paletta

The landscape architecture studio MNLA has been responsible for several prominent landscape interventions around the city: Its work at Pier 42 transformed a former parking lot and industrial pier into a new park for the Lower East Side, and the firm’s collaboration with Heatherwick Studio on Little Island created a new destination on Manhattan’s West Side.