How can we preserve architectural histories that transcend a singular site? Tabby concrete, a material made by enslaved Black people from burnt and crushed oyster shells, points to new historic preservation practices that transcend time and distance. placesjournal.org/article/tabb...
Linked through Black and Indigenous heritage, tabby concrete is a cross-generational, transnational building material that architectural historians must preserve.
Made by enslaved Black people using oyster shells from Indigenous middens, tabby concrete reflects the flow of centuries of capital and labor through the Atlantic World. Preserving the full version of this history requires a shift in U.S. preservation practice: placesjournal.org/article/tabb...
Linked through Black and Indigenous heritage, tabby concrete is a cross-generational, transnational building material that architectural historians must preserve.
The "little big worlds" (and comparatively giant cats) of MiniatĂźrk. Ozayr Saloojee visits Istanbul's miniature theme park, meandering through Turkish history, geography, and politics: placesjournal.org/article/litt...
A miniature theme park in Istanbul meanders through Turkish history, geography & politics. Featuring model versions of the countryâs real landmarks, MiniatĂźrk is at once a useful and profoundly disconcerting landscape, a place where TĂźrkiye has been âre-worlded.â placesjournal.org/article/litt...
A miniature theme park in Istanbul meanders through Turkish history, geography, and politics, offering an imaginary, 're-worlded' version of TĂźrkiye.
The universal design of Julia Child's kitchen; building a unified housing movement in America; a critic's look at LaToya Ruby Frazier's retrospective at MoMA; a review of shows at MoMA & Cranbrook on modern design in Latin America. Read & subscribe to our free newsletter! mailchi.mp/placesjourna...
Casserole, anyone? Recent articles and news from Places.
Julia Child didn't just make cooking more accessible: Her focus on function over style in the design and use of her kitchen became central to the accessibility movement known as Universal Design. Read our latest, by Barbara Penner & Charles Rice: placesjournal.org/article/juli...
The French Chefâs focus on function over style in the kitchen boosted the accessibility movement that became known as Universal Design.
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Proposals are being accepted for the inaugural On the Brinck | Places Prize, a collaboration between <em>Places </em>and the School of Architecture + Planning at University of New Mexico.
To ease the housing crisis, we need federal reform backed by a political movement committed to human rights. To make this movement happen, though, housing advocates will first have to stop fighting each other. Cassim Shepard, on the supply of housingâand justice: placesjournal.org/article/just...
To help address the U.S. housing crisis, we need federal reform backed by a mass social movement that unites YIMBYs and housing justice advocates.
"A bitter commentary on suppression of artistic freedom under the current Cuban regimeâand a lament for when a cultural avant-garde and a young socialist government found brief productive synchrony." A review of recent exhibitions on modern design in Latin America: placesjournal.org/article/lati...
Exhibitions at MOMA and Cranbrook museums highlight the history and politics of modern product design in mid-20th century Cuba and Latin America.