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McMansion Hell Bowl 2019: WHO WILL WIN
now you have a reason to care about (american) football!!!
My personal website!
Howdy folks, I know some of you saw the conceptual internet project I put together back in September, but I wanted to let y'all know that I've started a page for my personal writing that will be updated when I get in, as they say, a sentimental mood.Hope you enjoy!Kate
My first ever book review is up!
My first ever book review, in which I tackle The Man in the Glass House, Mark Lamster's biography of architect Phillip Johnson, is up at The Nation!
IMPORTANT: Tonight's Livestream Rescheduled
Hey folks! Sorry to reschedule so last minute, but I've come down with an ugly cold and my throat and voicebox are pretty much shot. I don't think I can actually talk for 2 hours straight tonight, considering I currently sound like I've been smoking three packs a day for thirty years. However, this being a cold, I'm sure it will clear up in a few days, so I'm rescheduling for Wednesday January 30th from 8-10PM.Sorry for the la...
for you aesthetics/architecture theory folks out there
more info about this horrifying failed castle development in Turkey: https://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-abandoned-disney-castles-villas-2019-1
My latest op ed for Curbed, tackling the saying "We don't build em like we used to."
There's a reason for that!ย
Huge News
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For those of you interested in my critical/political work outside McMansion Hell...
I wrote about the erasure of Internet culture for The Baffler.
Announcing: The Winners of the 1st Annual McMansion Hell Gingerbread House Competition
This whole thing was so much fun and frankly may have been the best idea I've ever had.
Happy Holidays!
I stitched this cute colonial revival house as one of my Christmas gifts and technically it counts as a good house of the week right??? Looking forward to the next year of McMansion Hell!
Reminder! Livestream tonight! 8:00-10:00 est!!
Update: Moving the Livestream back half an hour to 8PM EST
McMansion Hell Gingerbread Competition is now live!
Virginia post is next (it's taken me longer than expected to go through a state with such abhorrent houses), stay tuned!
Website Downtime
Howdy, McMansionHell.com will be down this afternoon for troubleshooting/maintenance. It will be back up soon!
My latest for The Atlantic: How Restaurants Got So Loud
Finally putting my acoustics degree to good use!
Updates!
Howdy folks, I got hella snagged having to travel for work related purposes pretty much every week this month, and am thus behind on the rewards. (Sorry!) But here's some updates!GHOTW: I'm wrapping up the Virginia post (it should be up later today or tomorrow) and have lots of bonus content for all rewards tiers (10 good houses and several bad).Bonus Essay: This will be out next week.Livestream: There will be a livestream next Monday (De...
New Curbed Editorial: What makes a flexible house?
This was a lot of fun to write. Hope you enjoy!!
King County Bonus Material
Trick or Treat! (It's hard to tell which these fall under tbh)As a special, Halloween surprise, here are a few houses that didn't make the top-10 cut, but are also extremely retched and terrible:Happy Halloween, everyone! Be safe!
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Good House of the Week: King County, Washington
Howdy folks!This week's Good House of the Week is this cute 5 bed, 4.25 (?what does that mean?) bath neo-Craftsman built in 2015. It might not look like much, but I think this house does a lot well, considering the trend in King County to build freakishly hulking "Craftsmans" and horrendous paper mache McModerns. First, this house packs its huge amount of space (3400 square feet!) into a neat little human-scaled package. Second, there...
new article
I wrote about preservation, Late Capitalismโข and flickr for The Baffler! (warning: some light politics)
Tomorrow! Doors Open Baltimore Kickoff Lecture Stream
Howdy folks! I'm giving a lecture on How to Look at Buildings in 30 Minutes for the Baltimore Architecture Foundation's Doors Open event, and if you're interested, it will be livestreamed on YouTube!Link to the Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkkV4Oa_U68The talk is tomorrow (Thursday October 4th) from 6-7PM Eastern Time.I believe it will be viewable after the event as well.
I wrote an essay about climate change
Other things it's about: - a 30 year old Washington Post piece - postmodernism - oh yeah, the NJ Turnpike
To renovate or not to renovate
My latest op-ed for Curbed about making compromises on renovating historic homes.
WORST OF TEXAS MCMANSIONS WINNER
SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS
Worst of Texas Final Round! Vote Now!
Hey folks, I have been totally overwhelmed since the DeVos piece launched and am only now getting out from under that collapsed ceiling to get back on schedule. BUT we will have a winner of this competition on Friday!
My history of (and manifesto on) closed spaces for CityLab!
This was a really in-depth essay that took months to write and fact-check. I hope you enjoy!
Worst of Texas Semifinals, and Happy 3rd Birthday to McMansion Hell!
3 Years!! 3 years!!! Utah Post will be up tomorrow! Plus, a McMansion Hell retrospective!
