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Archforum

Dec 12, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Samuel Stein |Liza Featherstone |Thomas de Monchaux |Kate Wagner

In November, US voters elected Donald Trump to a new, nonconsecutive term. The Developer in Chief will take the initiative to shape, and slash, policies in ways that stand to imperil the infrastructure of civic life. His various, nebulous campaign pronouncements included ending regulations related to housing construction, ramping up fossil fuel production, removing green energy incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act, and imposing staggering tariffs on imports.
Design Authority | Thomas de Monchaux

Oct 22, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Thomas de Monchaux

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Back from the Future

Sep 13, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

THE FUTURE, as the architectural historian Yogi Berra is said to have said, ain’t what it used to be. Whenever it comes to pass, it leaves unfulfilled any previously received idea of itself. Especially aesthetically. Actual futurity is not futuristic. The future most difficult of all to remember is that which was anticipated by the most recent past.
Fifth Column

Jun 26, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

BRONZE AND IRON AGE PEOPLEHOODS are indeed heavy metal.
Null and Trapezoid

Apr 12, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

On or about 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2024, New York City suffered its greatest loss of civic architecture since that Monday of October 28, 1963, when the wrecking ball first landed on old Penn Station.
This, This, This, and This | Thomas de Monchaux and Mark Krotov

Jan 22, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Thomas de Monchaux

The weekend before last we exchanged some emails about the artist Ed Ruscha and ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, the big MoMA retrospective of his work, which closed on January 13.
No More Corn in Egypt

Nov 18, 2023 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

Architects! If you must design in a historicist style, let it be Egyptian Revival. Those who advocate for buildings stylized to evoke the olden days—classicists, mostly, and those trads who love them—deploy the word timeless as if somehow to suggest that a particular set of forms can be, and indeed ever should be, immune to the vicissitudes and duties occasioned by changing times, changing peoples, changing climates.
The New Era Is a Fact | Thomas de Monchaux

Oct 26, 2023 | nplusonemag.com | Thomas de Monchaux

San Bernardino City Hall is a long and skinny building. It is six stories tall and constitutes 14,279 square feet of civic office and support space. Completed in 1972, it was designed by Cesar Pelli, an architect then working for the studio of Victor Gruen alongside Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first Black female licensed architect in New York and California, who would later work on the design of the American embassy in Tokyo and the Mall of America outside Minneapolis.
The Great and the Good

Oct 12, 2023 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

New York City has the best of everything. Except buildings.
Hunting and Gathering

Sep 12, 2023 | nyra.nyc | Thomas de Monchaux

To remember what happens to the best laid schemes of mice and men, refer to the vast reef-like accretions that are New York City’s great museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The American Museum of Natural History. They tend to start out with some kind of all-purpose efficiency core in the revived Romanesque-ish or Gothic-ish styles favored between the Civil War and the Gilded Age, when the city smartened itself up after the 1865 conflagration of P. T.