Articles by Pat Finn

Virginia Savage McElster’s reference book approaches architecture like a birdwatcher, with a hobbyis t’s delight in detail.

The late Fredric Jameson brought a poetic touch to critical architectural analysis. Nobody could rea d a building quite like him.

There is nothing worse than an impractical building. Unless, of course, the building is a thought ex periment.

The justly reviled “Corporate Memphis” style of graphic design has nothing to do with the daring wor k of the 1980s design collective.

While many Ocean Beach III residents speak of the neighborhood as a throwback to the 1950s, a “simpl er” time, I think of it as futuristic.

Classicists are not the only ones to put forward a critique of emotionally sterile architecture. Why do they act like they are?

The British designer's new book powerfully argues against generic glass and concrete boxes, but does it point the way toward more human cities?

Ye’s desecration of a Tadao Ando house has been attributed to the disgraced artist’s eccentricity. I t also reveals his creative bankruptcy.

The speculative designs of Étienne-Louis Boullée shed light on the revolutionary imagination of the Jacobins.