Articles by Katherine Wisniewski

Love has helped forge some of the best architecture of the last century.

Architects spend all day and night in the studio, which leaves little time to hone their rap games o r learn break dancing on the L train.

Welcome to Architizer’s doomsday cult. We’ve decided to celebrate the breaking and decay of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf with the breaking of our readers’ hearts. Experts predict that sea levels will rise 10 feet in the next few centuries, which means we should probably start to emphasize basic swimming in our educational curriculum, build…

The Sims could easily be renamed, My Two Years Experimenting with a Fascist Dictatorship. The neighb ors wouldn’t go away (just like our own), our parents were fighting (just like our own), and there was no reasonable access to alcohol — consequently, everything felt familiar. But, if we existed in a Sims reality, then all of…

“Insofar as you have in mind a retroactive award of the prize to Ms. Scott Brown, the present jury c annot do so,” remarked the Pritzker chairman, Peter Palumbo, in a letter regarding Caroline James and Arielle Assouline-Lichten’s viral petition to recognize Denise Scott Brown’s equal contribution alongside her Pritzker-winning husband, Robert Venturi, as part of…

Do you remember Dr. Evil’s mountaintop hideaway? Of course you do. But do you remember the stu nning vistas, natural rock formations, and architectural angles? You should. Let’s suppose, for a second, that Dr. Evil was more than the sum of a Napoleon Complex, unnerving scar, and pinky propensity. Instead, he was a misunderstood and sensitive…

Welcome to Poveglia Island. Thanks to Italy’s difficult financial straits, this honeymoon-retr eat- meets-horror-movie-set is on the market. Are you an architect who wants to easily reach the Venice Biennale, but also dreams of building a home on foundations echoing with the undead screams of your enemies? This could be your spot. Do you hate being…

Like an urbanist Coachella, the World’s Fair engulfed New York City for two stressful years be tween 1964 and 1965. An entire subway train was devoted to shuttling pilgrims backs and forth, while Queens received a futurist makeover. The fair correctly predicted color television, circular roadways, and underwater hotels (more on that later). But other things…

Patrik Schumacher is mad. We all know one thing for certain about his rant, more aptly titled a temp er tantrum — people took notice. Edwin Heathcote, architecture critic, referred to him as a “troll” on twitter, while the rest of the architectural community clutched their handkerchiefs to their chests and gasped, “and do you remember…