Zach Mortice

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Zach Mortice

Life after steel on the South Side of Chicago can be surprisingly beautiful. On a peninsula in Lake Michigan carved out by shipping inlets sits Steelworkers Park, a serene space on the southeast edge of the city that once held the roaring furnaces of US Steel’s South Works. Shoreline trails take visitors past giant industrial artifacts dropped in the landscape like Claes Oldenburg sculptures; a 26-ton blast furnace bell and an iron ingot mold the size of a go-kart.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Zach Mortice

4 hours agoHow ChatGPT is helping bend websites to my willYou don’t need to know JavaScript to write powerful browser bookmarklets anymore. I’m a writer, not a programmer, so until recently a lot of the hype around ChatGPT’s abitilies as a coding tool went over my head. But then I realized generative AI’s programming powers can be helpful for more than just …1 hour ago55 Years Later, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Thriller Is Still Painfully RelevantThe story of a colossal blunder.

2 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Zach Mortice

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is an international membership association that represents more than 200 schools of architecture and 7,000 faculty around the world. Last month, as reported by AN, it canceled the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) themed on Palestine and fired its interim executive editor. The action resulted in the resignation of all 20 members of the JAE editorial board on March 10, shortly before the annual ACSA meeting.

1 month ago | metropolismag.com | Zach Mortice

American women embraced residential design and offered a counterpoint to the boys club of the International Style, a new book says. By: Zach MorticeThe question at the heart of Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Zach Mortice

In 1972, the New York Times described the landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg as one of the “New Left of playground designers” for his radical breaks with tradition. His playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty New York City public housing projects, light years away from the ornamental gardening approach that spawned the discipline in the 19th century.