Series: POINT: Essays on Architecture

Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled by...

A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific art. In the decades after World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific artworks. Second Site offers a powerful meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time alter and transform the...

A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theorists. Conceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or 'spirit of the age,' an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how architecture can work against these linear currents in startling...