Arguing that urban sprawl is the dominant growth paradigm of the present and future, the author advocates a close examination of dynamic, amorphous metroplexes like Phoenix and Dubai.
A documentary on the postwar sculptor Eva Hesse (1936–70), directed by Marcie Begleiter, screens at Film Forum in New York this week. In our Summer 1983 issue, historian Ellen H. Johnson compiled exce…
As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April…
In big country you do not see in the ordinary way. There is no "middle distance," only "near" and far," the dust at your feet and the haze on the horizon.