
Christopher Hawthorne
Architecture Critic. Faculty Architecture + English @Yale. Previously: Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles; architecture critic @latimes.
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1 month ago |
nyra.nyc | Christopher Hawthorne
Can we have a moratorium on Chat GPT stunt journalism, please? With all respect to Gideon Fink Shapiro—and to my good friend and fellow critic Mark Lamster, who recently asked AI to review Morphosis’s Perot Museum in a piece for the Dallas Morning News—I think I speak for many readers when I say, Basta.
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2 months ago |
yalereview.org | Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne I hate to break it to my friends and colleagues in the very small world of architecture criticism, many of whom have spent the last month cataloguing the ways Brady Corbet’s film The Brutalist misrepresents the process of designing and constructing buildings, but this stem-winder of a Best Picture contender is not really about architecture.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Christopher Hawthorne
The Smithsonian's "Making Home" winds up with an uneven mix of beauty, politics and platitudes. When the Cooper Hewitt introduced its triennial design series, in 2000, the goal was straightforward: to offer a snapshot of the field that reflected, typically with an optimistic gloss, the preoccupations and triumphs of American designers.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
altaonline.com | Christopher Hawthorne
Getty’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide festival is the largest art event in the United States. Every Friday, Alta Sketchbook will offer the most intriguing takeaways from the 800-plus artists exploring the collision of art and science through exhibitions across Southern California.
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Sep 22, 2024 |
altaonline.com | Christopher Hawthorne
Japanese immigrants began settling on Bainbridge Island, a hilly, forested patch of land two miles west of Seattle, in the 1880s. Early arrivals found work in the Port Blakely mill, but within a generation, many Japanese residents had established their own businesses, including plant nurseries and produce farms. By the time Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, the Japanese American population on Bainbridge was approaching 300, or about 1 in 10 island residents.
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when the ball is handed to you two feet from the basket, the opposing team heads en masse to the locker room, and you still can't make the %$^!* layup

More heat for using a group chat than for the bombing itself.

this would strain credulity as a storyline on succession

A hunting party involving Donald Trump Jr. is being reviewed by the Venice prosecutor’s office, after Italian politicians accused the group of killing a protected species of duck, according to Italian media. https://t.co/6kmjf7MaY3

RT @yalereview: Architecture critics have almost universally lambasted “The Brutalist,” which is up for ten Academy Awards next month. But…