Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne
@hawthorne.bsky.social
Architecture critic. Proprietor, Punch List Architecture Newsletter (punchlistmag.com). Faculty Architecture and English @Yale. Prev. Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles; architecture critic, Los Angeles Times
if only the bias meter had been around to measure the LAT’s
reporting on high-speed rail!
December 9, 2024 at 8:33 PM
wow the (alleged) health-care avenger is a trad
December 9, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Some 📷s of Ma Yansong's talk last night at YSOA.

His office has so much work around the world that he barely had time to share even basic info on each project.

Loved that he showed the fish tank he designed as a young jobless architect though—
November 22, 2024 at 7:32 PM
some more photos. it’s an uneven project—a young architect’s project—and Yale, aside from a rather cursory 2016 update, hasn’t taken great care of it. but some great details
November 22, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Did you know that there’s a second Paul Rudolph bldg at Yale, aside from the famous A&A?

It’s a single-story design—ringed by 28 precast, treelike concrete columns—hidden away along Prospect St. and called Greeley Memorial Laboratory.

It predates A&A: It was completed in 1959, when Rudolph was 41
November 22, 2024 at 7:13 PM