{"id":3214,"date":"2009-01-10T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:29:08","slug":"writing-on-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/writing-on-buildings","title":{"rendered":"Writing on Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because the NYTimes’<\/em> architecture critic lives on another planet<\/a> (lemme tell you, Nicolai: the problem with starchitecture is not<\/em> that it failed to focus on public housing), that doesn’t mean there isn’t good writing about architecture in other<\/em> newspapers. Dwell’s blog offers up a bunch of them<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just because the NYTimes’ architecture critic lives on another planet (lemme tell you, Nicolai: the problem with starchitecture is not that it failed to focus on public housing), that doesn’t mean there isn’t good writing about architecture in other newspapers. Dwell’s blog offers up a bunch of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,46,19],"tags":[511,287],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-urban-issues","tag-aaron-britt","tag-nicolai-ouroussoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-PQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5082,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-12-2010","url_meta":{"origin":3214,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: March 12, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"March 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Unrequired Reading time! 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