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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pleased to have a note on The Sea Ranch in this week’s Punch List Architecture Newsletter alongside a great interview with Sekou Cooke www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-educat...

On the Sea Ranch front, Alexander Luckmann, whose recent Architect's Newspaper essay. on Ungers we linked to two weeks ago, sent along this usefully contrarian view on the development and its origins: "To me, the really interesting aspect of The Sea Ranch has always been the impossibility of realizing its utopian vision within its actual status: a developer's project that had to make money. It's a series of paradoxes: A sustainable, ecological way of living-as long as you drive three hours from San Francisco. A democratic, middle-income community-of second homes (I have a hard time believing anyone, except maybe Boeke, actually thought this was achievable). A development that kept the land free from building-but wanted to privatize the beach (it remains my opinion that TSR's most valuable legacy is inadvertent: public beaches throughout the state). The old narrative of Sea Ranch as a beautiful project that got ruined later when money became all-important is either blind or willfully blind; it was always going to be that way."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Barton Myers, 1934-2026. A crucial figure in Toronto architecture and urban design has died

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Remember that @archpaper.com essay on NYC's containerization plan that all of @bsky.app hated on so aggressively last week? I asked Matt Shaw, who wrote it, if he'd join me on Punch List to defend the piece & discuss "the online ruckus." To his credit, he did: www.punchlistmag.com/p/dumpster-f...

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Dumpster fire

Matt Shaw, author of the summer’s most hated design essay, visits Punch List to defend himself. Plus, women run the Guggenheim(s), more on Tom Hines, and the sad state of L.A.’s Sixth Street Bridge

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Lockheed Martin, which owns Sikorsky, has said it is paying to build the helipad as a donation."

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 06/07/2026

i don't know why lying about this is such a priority for people. you should have the chutzpah to say it's ugly and we should build it anyway

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s worth emphasising: the public have reached this conclusion all by themselves, because they sure as shit weren’t told it by the US press.

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sigh. I was actually curious to read this thread, but it seems Ms. Wilson is merely workshopping a pitch to the New York Times for one of its famously nuanced pieces on Los Angeles

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.”

WIRED headline:
OpenAl Models Escaped Containment and Hacked
Hugging Face
Subhed: The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For posterity, from the NYTimes. Complete displacement of accountability.

Headline on New York Times Article:
“OpenAl Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library”
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAl was testing the systems.

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this sentiment really belongs more on twitter than here, but I would be happy never hearing from the single-stair obsessives ever again

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some thoughts on embellishment in architecture and sport, by way of Embolo, D. Wade, Loos, Picon, Bloomer, et al: www.punchlistmag.com/p/ornament-a...

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Ornament and crime at the World Cup

What soccer can teach us about performative architecture, and vice versa. Plus:

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cool interview of Morgenstern about the story by urbanism critic Christopher Hawthorne here. Morgenstern, usually a film critic, wrote two architecture stories: an early profile of Frank Gehry and this one. Hell of a two-for-two on that beat. www.punchlistmag.com/p/i-beams-ar...

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“I-beams are bending like cigarettes in there”

The latest on the crisis at the Pfizer building—including a conversation with Joe Morgenstern, who wrote a canonical New Yorker article on another midtown tower in danger of collapse. Plus: Stierli an...

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

lol we couldn't even build a passable Spinal Tap version of the arch for the 250th Imagine how the real thing is going to look!

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Priya Jain of @sah1365.bsky.social testifying against the Arc de Trump at today's NCPC meeting: "Reject this hasty and inappropriate proposal."

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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

From @hawthorne.bsky.social latest Punchlist Architecture Newsletter

"Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice ... in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York."
-Félix Guattari, 1989, via Susan Stryker.

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

also, the universal reports from ppl who have worked for him, or known him forever, are that lander is just the best

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If the Warriors can get either Burries or Morez, all good—

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

Headline from March, 'The March is Going Better Than You Think.'

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“To become president… in recent decades has required candidates to become prodigious fundraisers + expert shapers of their own personal and political narratives—two qualities that come in very handy when the time comes to craft a post-presidency plan + an architectural vision to go with it.”

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“In order to ‘end the cult of personality that seems to be in place with the current Presidential Library system,… we need a single Prez Archives, housed in a facility run by the Nat’l Archives…in or nearby DC” Rotating exhibitions could be held there,… ‘but its primary purpose will be archival.’”

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Is it time to reinvent the presidential library?

A road trip to Hyde Park reveals how far we’ve drifted from the original model

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 08/05/2026

“The Wilshire subway is an especially notable milestone in this expansion. It remakes a key backbone of LA car culture, the home of the Miracle Mile and the Petersen Automotive Museum alike, as a heavy-rail corridor.” Excellent piece on the D Line opening from @hawthorne.bsky.social.

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The new LACMA is a big deal for Los Angeles. The Wilshire subway is even bigger

A conversation with India Mandelkern about the D Line extension, a key section of which opens today; plus: a Lamster Pulitzer and the latest young architects to reimagine the Met

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Sadly going to miss the Viollet-le-Duc exhibition currently in NYC & closing later this month. But in addition to glowing reports from colleagues who have seen it, here are 3 nice recent reviews. 1. In @hawthorne.bsky.social's Punch List this weekend: www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-polyma...

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The polymath’s revenge

What a brilliant exhibition on Viollet-le-Duc says about our own architectural and cultural moment

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"The Geffen Galleries are the product of two minds that succeeded in making sense of LA's polyglot urban form and eternally slippery civic identity" I've read a lot about the new LACMA and this by @hawthorne.bsky.social is by far the best thing written about it: www.punchlistmag.com/p/zumthor-ea...

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Zumthor earns his L.A. stripes

And other impressions of the new LACMA, now that the art is installed. Plus: the architect’s sloppy attempt at revisionist history

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s and ’80s, as I did, you felt a certain minor pride in sharing a home region with the Apple Computer Company, as the startup was known when it was founded, fifty years ago this week, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne."

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

just updated my post to include this:

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Instead of a Porsche, the once-scrappy institution has treated itself, as it nears its 50th birthday, to a sleek and pricey (if shoddy!) Koolhaas By an insanely fresh, sharp, and precise @hawthorne.bsky.social www.punchlistmag.com/p/review-the...

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Review: The New Museum’s midlife crisis

Instead of a Porsche, the once-scrappy institution has treated itself, as it nears its 50th birthday, to a sleek and pricey (if shoddy!) Koolhaas; in lieu of collecting artworks, it seems to be collec...

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Jay Campbell @habeassnarkus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Bruce Pearl insists Auburn can still get in if Mike Pence will do the right thing.

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Chris “OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!” Dobbertean @bracketdobber.net · 14/03/2026

Get Bruce Pearl off my television.

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Ennui-tery @jerkwheatery.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

GO CRY MORE BRUCE PEARL

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“Often, and this of course is odd for a manifesto, he writes the way Gensler makes architecture, or maybe the way Oprah might gush abt, say, the good works of Meghan + Harry while all three sit beneath the bougainvillea on a Montecito terrace… The role in this enterprise of Verso… remains puzzling.”

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Review: Reinier de Graaf’s radical chic

Or, How to have your taart and eat it too. Plus: Rem weighs in by email on de Graaf’s call for a mandatory retirement age in architecture

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“I believe there is a place for the fellow who yells fire and indicates where some of the smoke is coming from without actually dragging the hose to the spot.”—Nathanael West

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

After a disastrous run two years, Will Lewis is OUT as CEO and publisher of The Washington Post. Jeff D'Onofrio steps in as interim boss.

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Definitely interesting. "“The problem is bigger than BIG”: Architecture and labor rights clash in London", by @hawthorne.bsky.social and Lev Bratishenko. www.punchlistmag.com/p/the-proble...

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“The problem is bigger than BIG”: Architecture and labor rights clash in London

A Punch List correspondent reports from the scene. Plus: the architects in the Epstein files, and the Independence Arch goes XXL

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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The more I read about Gaudi’s life, the more convinced I become that he’d be the ideal subject for a Paul Scrader biopic

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

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