Common Projekts — Journal https://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/ Writing on modernist and minimal brutalist architecture from Common Projekts, New York. en-us Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:35:27 +0000 A Brick That Holds Nothing Uphttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/a-brick-that-holds-nothing-up.htmlhttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/a-brick-that-holds-nothing-up.htmlSat, 27 Jun 2026 23:35:17 +0000Meganom 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. Restraint Is the Expensive Parthttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/restraint-is-the-expensive-part.htmlhttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/restraint-is-the-expensive-part.htmlSat, 27 Jun 2026 21:19:12 +0000MaterialsModernismHouse 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. Gaudí's Centenary, and the Plainer Line That Wonhttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/gaudi-centenary-the-plainer-line-won.htmlhttps://www.commonprojekts.com/journal/gaudi-centenary-the-plainer-line-won.htmlSat, 27 Jun 2026 20:50:39 +0000Theory & CriticismModernismA 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.