Anthony Paletta

Anthony Paletta writes the Spaces column for the Wall Street Journal and contributes to The Guardian, Bookforum, Metropolis, The Daily Beast, Architectural Record, and a variety of other publications.

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Resilience and Sustainability

Profit- and Market-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Real Estate

While U.S. policies on energy may shift in the coming years, panelists speaking at an event in New York City in February said that no backtracking is in sight regarding the integration of sustainability into the best practices of the real estate industry.

March 9, 2017

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Anthony Paletta

Infrastructure

In Print: Scaling Infrastructure and Infrastructural Monument

Infrastructure was accordingly a rich theme for the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism’s two inaugural conferences, whose proceedings are now available in two intriguing volumes, concerning both the rote realities of appropriate functionality, Scaling Infrastructure, and the possibilities of civic and connective consequentiality, Infrastructural Monument.

September 15, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

Design and Planning

In Print: Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

The transmission of ideas and concepts across wildly different societies is usually a tale of progress; Mitchell Duneier’s Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea is not one of those stories.

September 15, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

Design and Planning

News

In Print: A Burglar’s Guide to the City

The premise of Geoff Manaugh’s A Burglar’s Guide to the Cityis simple; burglars understand cities, and the buildings that constitute them, better than you do. Manaugh has been exploring a dizzying range of theoretical and esoterically vocational perspectives on the city for well over a decade on his invaluable BLDGBLOG.

August 29, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

In Depth

Innovation Districts & Corridors

In Print: The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure

The word infrastructure, which originated during the 1920s, was unusual enough to still appear in quotation marks in the Wall Street Journalas late as the 1980s. Henry Petroski’s The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructureis an exhaustive tour of the tremendous variety of built works encompassed by the term.

August 1, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

Design and Planning

Four Concepts Reimagining the Future of Modern Memorials

The competition was intended to “reimagine how we think about, feel, and experience memorials,” eliciting entries that both aim to fill in topics and themes that have not been commemorated and to anticipate those that might merit future attention.

June 30, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

Infrastructure

In Print: Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia

The gleaming white terminal on the cover suggests a book much like many others, outlining a future (and present) of grand planning for the prosperity brought and dispatched via the wonders of air traffic. But this is not that book: it is a fascinating examination of the many elements that such forecasts leave out or overlook.

June 13, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

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Design and Planning

Economy, Market & Trends

In Print: Where Are the Women Architects?

Historian Despina Stratigakos’s book is a nuanced effort “to track an unfinished dialogue that has haunted architecture—in a cycle of acknowledging and abandoning its gender issues—for a long time,” as she writes in her introduction.

April 14, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

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Design and Planning

In Print: Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

Ann Sussman and Justin B. Hollander’s book is an effort to shape a body of biological and psychological conclusions about architecture into a framework for thinking about just what deeper traits shape human preferences about the built environment.

February 29, 2016

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Anthony Paletta

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Design and Planning

In Print: Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation

The map inside the front cover of Bjarke Ingels’s new book is a rapid corrective to anyone tempted to reckon his Alexander-like conquest of the globe before turning 40 years old as merely figurative, exploring commissions from Lappland in northern Scandinavia to Doha in Qatar and dozens of coordinates in between.

November 23, 2015

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Anthony Paletta

Design and Planning

The Evolving Role of Architectural Design Competitions

Competitions, as television programming has shown us, usually extract reliable entertainment from participants in return for the mere promise of exposure.

October 2, 2015

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Anthony Paletta

Design and Planning

Office

Added Dimensionality in the Modern Workspace

Prevailing modes of workplace organization have and continue to be upended by new enterprises, designers, and clients, according to panelists at the 2014 ULI Fall Meeting in New York City.

November 4, 2014

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Anthony Paletta

Urban Land Contributors