Mark Lamster writings on Design Observer

Mark Lamster: The Tower that Beer Built

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:01:17 GMT

The House that Beer Built

Mark Lamster: The Bush Library

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:38:05 GMT

A review of the Bush Library.

Mark Lamster: The Story of Seagram

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:20:01 GMT

The story of the Seagram Building, the world's most beautiful washing machine, and the woman who made it happen.

Mark Lamster: How to Design an Iconic NY Fast Food Joint

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:18:19 GMT

Design secrets of New York fast food icons.

Mark Lamster: Berlin: Then and Now

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:28:15 GMT

Two exhibitions with works that look back on life in Berlin.

Mark Lamster: The Dallas Way

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:34:06 GMT

I am pleased to announce that next month I will become the new architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News.

Mark Lamster: Inventing the Modern Library

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:25:45 GMT

A new exhibition of Henri Labrouste, the French architect who invented the modern library.

Mark Lamster: Orange City

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:19:48 GMT

That the orange could be an antidote to the travails and toxins of the city has been a theme in their history and propagation, and one not unconnected to the development of architecture.

Mark Lamster: The Imaginary Worlds of Stephen Talasnik

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:52:37 GMT

The extraordinary work of Stephen Talasnik.

Mark Lamster: Grand Central Turns 100

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:04:52 GMT

Grand Central Terminal celebrates its centennial.

Mark Lamster: Clear the Promenade

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:55:26 GMT

The NYCB needs to be a better steward of Philip Johnson's landmark theater.

Mark Lamster: I Love New York at Night

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:18:46 GMT

A Visual Celebration of the City that Never Sleeps

Mark Lamster: Norman Foster's NYPL: Not Good Enough

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:33:14 GMT

The new plans for the NYPL lack architectural distinction.

Mark Lamster: Lunch With The Critics: Third-Annual Year-End Awards

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:09:01 GMT

Idiosyncratic awards bestowed on architecture, design and media.

Mark Lamster: The Other Ezra Stoller

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:42:27 GMT

No achitect is unfamiliar with Ezra Stoller, the pioneering photographer whose clinical eye defined modernism and shaped our vision of the built world for much of the twentieth century.

Mark Lamster: F*ck Elegant

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:27:51 GMT

A single word is destroying design communication. We must stop it.

Mark Lamster: Lebbeus Woods & John Johansen: Memories of Architecture's Lost Visionaries

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:21:34 GMT

Remembering two of architecture's great but very different visionaries, Lebbeus Woods and John Johansen.

Mark Lamster: High (Line) Anxiety

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:54:50 GMT

Is the High Line above criticism?

Mark Lamster: Nick Tobier Will Make You Smile

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:23:39 GMT

The wondrous and inspiring installation work of Nick Tobier.

Mark Lamster: The Rise and Fall of Polaroid: An Interview with Christopher Bonanos

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:12:06 GMT

A conversation with Chrisopher Bonanos on Instant, his history of Polaroid and Edwin Land

Mark Lamster: Joy, Illustrated

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:31:49 GMT

A new gallery for experimental art and design opens on the fringes of Chinatown.

Mark Lamster: Mr. Wright Comes to Moloch

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:57:11 GMT

Frank Lloyd Wright comes to New York

Mark Lamster: Unconventional Imagery

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:43:02 GMT

The GOP goes Soviet

Mark Lamster: Literature's Harshest Criticism

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:23:01 GMT

What is the harshest architectural criticism in literature?

Mark Lamster: Celebrating the Undecorated Shed

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:52:32 GMT

What an undecorated shed says about signature architecture.