Common Projekts — Journal
Writing from Common Projekts — a New York architecture and interiors studio working in modernist and minimal brutalist design. Notes on buildings, materials, and the ideas behind them.
Meganom is wrapping a skinny Manhattan tower in more than 200,000 aluminium "bricks." They are beautiful, and they are not bricks, and the word is doing work the building should be doing on its own.
Read ↗House of EM built a whole house out of four materials and then had the discipline to stop. A note on Skylark, brick, and why doing less is the costly version.
Read ↗A hundred years after his death, the Sagrada Família finally tops out. Good moment to ask which architecture actually descended from him — and why ours didn't.
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