Eric Schwartau

Sep 16, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Eric Schwartau

Knowing my penchant for summer sabbaticals, my editor suggested that for this issue I write a “travel column.” What, after all, is architecture without travel? Buildings don’t travel to you, you have to go to them. And yet, a grand tour of iconic edifices was not really part of my itinerary. I was in search not of momentous monuments but monumental moments to structure my sightseeing story. My journey starts in Maine.

Jun 27, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Eric Schwartau

I debuted this column in January 2023 with a flippant defense of car ownership in New York City. It felt liberating to be an auto apologist. But for every carefree joyride, there is a killjoy speed bump, most recently a $720 charge to fix my 2010 Toyota Prius’s AC filter—clogged with debris left over by the rats living under the hood—and a $192 civil penalty for letting my insurance lapse due to an expired credit card.

Jun 20, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Eric Schwartau

I arrived late to the water tasting because I had decided to make a pit stop in Williamsburg for a different kind of refreshment.

Jun 20, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Eric Schwartau

I arrived a little too early to “the first party of summer,” as one downtown starlet later dubbed it. Copies of the Whitney Review (TWR) were stacked high by a reception desk, and deejay Skype Williams, installed in one corner of a gallery on Wooster Street (a pop-up of the Los Angeles gallery SPY Projects was then in residence), didn’t seem to mind playing to a mostly empty room. Premixed cosmos and canned espresso martinis had been set out in anticipation of more partygoers.

May 16, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Eric Schwartau

Design duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger marry form with fantasy in striking spaces It’s been 13 years since Israeli-born architects Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger met as journalists at Haaretz. Following each other to the Harvard Graduate School of Design, then Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where they were hired as a “package deal”—which they assure me is not that weird—they would eventually start their own firm called BoND, shorthand for Bureau of Noam and Daniel.