CLIPS

Here is a list of some of my best, most representative pieces as a writer.

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, & CULTURE

The Polemicist Has Logged On

Articles for The Baffler

• Fuck the Vessel
• 404 Page Not Found
• The Archivists of Extinction
• The Palace and the Storm

Articles for Curbed.com

• The Case Against Lawns
• The Myth of 'We Don't Build Like We Used To'
• Building Houses that Grow With Us
• How to Go About Renovating
• Our Homes Don't Need Formal Spaces
• What Should the Next HGTV Show Look Like?
• There's Nothing Wrong With Your House

Articles for CityLab

• The Robert Venturi Effect
• The Case for Rooms

Essays on the American Landscape

• Man-Writer Against Nature - HmmDaily
• Aesthetic Moralism & The Crisis of Urban Housing - Common Edge
• Looking Around: Horizontal Space - McMansion Hell
• Looking Around: All Buildings Are Interesting - McMansion Hell
• McMansion, USA - Jacobin
• Roast of the Betsy DeVos Estate - Vox

WRITINGS ON ACOUSTICS & SOUND

in The Atlantic

• How Restaurants Got So Loud
• City Noise Might Be Making You Sick

REVIEWS

• Reckoning With the Man Who Sold Architecture To the Masses - The Nation