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free speech on campus is essential to education
In the 1970’s I was a student at Cooper Union when a club of Jewish students invited Zionist Meir Kahane.
INKTV Interview: Communal Housing
I Never Knew TV interview: Jamboo is a collaboration between architects, engineers and artists who envision a new model for development in Jamaica, employing the natural wealth of Jamaica.
INKTV Interview: Religion and Architecture
INK TV interview: “Religions are just another political party, but one that you’re not allowed to criticize.”
Brutalism Anniversary
“It looks like something from a wildly imaginative sci-fi comic, an impossible vision of worlds slamming into each other in a fantastical collage.” Oliver Wainwright from The Guardian
It’s the Winter Olympics again
My 2006 Winter Olympics post holds up well, as it does for each and every Winter Olympics. The highlight of the 2022 Beijing extravaganza was the computerized curling stones.
NYCHA Slumlord
Without ongoing maintenance, all housing, regardless of quality, is doomed to failure.
Race, Color & Creed
If you say you’re white, you’re white and if you say you’re black, you’re black.
Putting Faith Before Fact: two articles in the New York Times
Religion has nothing to do with being good or smart, you can be both all by yourself.
Money Junkies & Redemptive Philanthropy
Bezos, Bloomberg, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Gates and Musk, would like you to believe it’s possible to make billions without stealing. It’s not.
Individual -vs- Collective
The egalitarianism of desperation.
Burn in Hell
Taking more than your fair share is stealing.
Biden’ his time
Black Americans put Biden in office and then watched as he tip-toed around two traitors who stymied his agenda.
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2023
- Nov 4, 2023 free speech on campus is essential to education Nov 4, 2023
- Mar 17, 2023 INKTV Interview: Communal Housing Mar 17, 2023
- Feb 5, 2023 INKTV Interview: Religion and Architecture Feb 5, 2023
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2022
- Mar 2, 2022 Brutalism Anniversary Mar 2, 2022
- Feb 22, 2022 It’s the Winter Olympics again Feb 22, 2022
- Feb 1, 2022 NYCHA Slumlord Feb 1, 2022
- Jan 21, 2022 Race, Color & Creed Jan 21, 2022
- Jan 20, 2022 Putting Faith Before Fact: two articles in the New York Times Jan 20, 2022
- Jan 20, 2022 Money Junkies & Redemptive Philanthropy Jan 20, 2022
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2021
- Nov 12, 2021 Individual -vs- Collective Nov 12, 2021
- Nov 7, 2021 Burn in Hell Nov 7, 2021
- Nov 7, 2021 Biden’ his time Nov 7, 2021
- Sep 30, 2021 JAMBOO, A New Approach Sep 30, 2021
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2019
- Dec 9, 2019 CU Archive Goes Live Dec 9, 2019
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2018
- Aug 24, 2018 A Dog’s Life Aug 24, 2018
- Jun 14, 2018 MOMA Utopia Jun 14, 2018
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2014
- Mar 6, 2014 Back to the Futurists Mar 6, 2014
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2013
- Jul 23, 2013 Brutalism and Beauty Jul 23, 2013
- Jul 18, 2013 A Mobius Experience: my take on the Travon Martin case Jul 18, 2013
- Apr 19, 2013 Ping Pong Utopia Apr 19, 2013
- Mar 28, 2013 ART MAKES YOU SMART Mar 28, 2013
- Mar 15, 2013 The Wise Wife Mar 15, 2013
- Mar 2, 2013 AIRLINE ATROCITIES: AA and the Disappearing Middle Class Mar 2, 2013
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2012
- Sep 2, 2012 INTUITION FREE: The End of Free Tuition at Cooper Union Sep 2, 2012
- Jun 28, 2012 IKLAND the worst people in the world Jun 28, 2012
- Jan 21, 2012 The PRUITT-IGOE MYTH Jan 21, 2012
- Jan 13, 2012 Pictures with Famous People Jan 13, 2012
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2011
- Mar 11, 2011 On Education: The fall of Conscription and the Rise of Soccer Moms Mar 11, 2011
- Mar 6, 2011 Getting Stoned in Harlem Mar 6, 2011
- Feb 25, 2011 Excess and Revolution: The Fall of Dynasties Feb 25, 2011
- Jan 23, 2011 Burning Down the House Jan 23, 2011
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2009
- Aug 1, 2009 Are Deceit and Duplicity Necessary to Success? Aug 1, 2009
- Apr 13, 2009 Ben & Jenny Apr 13, 2009
- Mar 21, 2009 ICONOTECTURE Mar 21, 2009
- Mar 15, 2009 Seating Crisis Mar 15, 2009
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2008
- Nov 20, 2008 Barack to the Future Nov 20, 2008
- Nov 17, 2008 Fancy Fences Nov 17, 2008
- Feb 8, 2008 But, But, Mr. Butts: Divine Comedy or Dramatic Irony? Feb 8, 2008
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2007
- Dec 31, 2007 New Museum Dec 31, 2007
- Dec 12, 2007 Starstruck and Amuck in Argentina Dec 12, 2007
- Sep 10, 2007 Tennis Anyone? Sep 10, 2007
- Feb 18, 2007 Religion, what is it good for? Let them kill each other. Feb 18, 2007
- Jan 26, 2007 How long can the streak of white men in the White House go on? Jan 26, 2007
- Jan 17, 2007 In Praise Of Dilettantes and Other Fakers Jan 17, 2007
- Jan 15, 2007 Guggenheim Visit: El Greco to Picasso Jan 15, 2007
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2006
- Sep 28, 2006 In Praise of Questions Sep 28, 2006
- Aug 19, 2006 Bad Boys Aug 19, 2006
- Aug 5, 2006 Walking Billboard Aug 5, 2006
- Aug 1, 2006 Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow? Aug 1, 2006
- Apr 10, 2006 Security: An Exercise in Futility Apr 10, 2006
- Apr 5, 2006 Passion Plays Apr 5, 2006
- Mar 25, 2006 The PSAL Championship game between Coney Island rivals Lincoln and Grady Mar 25, 2006
- Feb 22, 2006 Winter Olympics Feb 22, 2006
- Jan 16, 2006 Alito Jan 16, 2006
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2005
- Dec 17, 2005 Thoughts on Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tookie Williams Dec 17, 2005
- Dec 9, 2005 Thoughts on Black Aesthetics Dec 9, 2005
- Dec 2, 2005 Are men necessary? Comments on Maureen Dowd’s book Dec 2, 2005
- Nov 18, 2005 RK COMIX Nov 18, 2005
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1995
- Jun 1, 1995 Be What You Want To Be Jun 1, 1995
“Be What You Want To Be”
Video Trailer created by friends in 1995.
In this three minute trailer Rod reveals he always wanted to be an architect, he loves the Empire State building, the MetLife building is dreadful, and that “Architecture is a state of mind, I believe everybody is an architect.”
BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE, 1995 Video Trailer