"All these many years into my life as a library card holder, I still walk into mine and think: I can take any of these books home with me? For FREE? Everyone should be talking about this!”
- Melissa Albert, author

#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
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We curated a library for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale!

The books featured in "PORCH: A Library" examine the commitments of people to one another and the planet, exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter.

Read our curatorial statement & browse the books:

^ Ten years after writing the text 'Alchemy of the Classroom,' along with @cerreyes.bsky.social for Volume, it's worth to look back and to revisit it, to discover what has changed and which challenges are still there when talking about new, urgent, radical pedagogies in architecture.

I’ve been working closely with a library org this year. Today the ED asked about my career goals. I said: “My goal is to do cool, fulfilling projects w/ interesting ppl; in collaboration w/ generally honorable + benevolent institutions + organizations, in a city that provides continual inspiration.”

The new beginning of the semester deserves a new t-shirt, this one more than pertinent to the current political climate.

In which @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social mirrors the fantastic 'Presidents are Temporary: Wu-Tang is Forever’, a mash-up by our dear partner in crime @cerreyes.bsky.social

For a half century, film has been relying on the idea that government is pure evil as a plot point. And then pseudointellectuals wonder why people elect politicians who promise to undo the social compact.

We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.