You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. News of Donald Trump’s recent executive order concerning architecture, and ...

The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than modernist aesthetics. By Zachary Small President Trump signed an executive ...

Beneath the ground lies a material that has quietly shaped the architecture of the modern world. Petroleum is rarely discussed within architectural discourse, yet the extraction, circulation, and ...