gideonfinkshapiro

Writer and historian of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Based in NYC.

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Thanks @bagnese for this callback and the visionary assignment 16 years ago. You shaped it. @joseph_grima created the impetus with Postopolis at @storefrontnyc. What fun to interview these creators, some of whom became colleagues and friends

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Wrote this back in Feb

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

“Slipping beneath the portico into a tall granite grotto behind 550 Madison Avenue, I’m confronted by a mash-up of heavy-handed ’80s PoMo, tasteful Nordic modernism, and rustic romance."

@gideonfinkshap1 writes in Issue #33.

https://t.co/IFFVkmseIs

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

“Slipping beneath the portico into a tall granite grotto behind 550 Madison Avenue, I’m confronted by a mash-up of heavy-handed ’80s PoMo, tasteful Nordic modernism, and rustic romance."

@gideonfinkshap1 writes in Issue #33.

https://t.co/IFFVkmseIs

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Thx to the fantastic team at @nyreviewofarch for developing this review with me last fall, indulging my bit of political analysis (pre-election), and sourcing artwork from 1969.

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

“Regional planning is needed more urgently than ever, but the political capacity for regional planning may be breaking down.”

Gideon Fink Shapiro @gideonfinkshap1 writes in Issue #32.
Image courtesy the Regional Planning Association @RegionalPlan

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

@NYTSports @SopanDeb Great column, and extra points for slipping in a sly rhyme with you-know-who, in the phrase “one last overwhelming FLURRY of deep shots”

[Curbed @Curbed]

“Bootleg is our methodology.”

@gideonfinkshap1 talked to the artists reconstructing New Land Plaza, a haven for counterfeit goods that was shut down in a Bloomerg-era raid, and presenting an archive as a countercultural response https://t.co/JQirln4CSG

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

My review of the new MoMA show “Architecture Now: New York New Publics” in @archpaper, edited by Jack Murphy

[The Architect's Newspaper @archpaper]

Among the twelve delightfully inventive projects represented in Architecture Now: New York, New Publics are a dump on Staten Island turned into a biodiverse park space and fire hydrants adapted with plumbing apparatus.
https://t.co/hg4pgACXs5

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

@nyreviewofarch Some of the AI responses quoted here, including those in the screenshots, were generated in the older GPT-3 Playground interface rather than the newest and most advanced interface, ChatGPT, which uses GPT-3.5. Thx to Vishal Berry for pointing this out.

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Writing about AI, with AI.

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

I ask the model to address writers’ fears straight-up: “Will AI replace professional writers?”

@gideonfinkshap1 asks ChatGPT the tough questions.

https://t.co/HUGQCNmdmH

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Where does green/circular design meet smart tech? I pondered that while writing this piece on the Omega Center for Sustainable Living.

[Smart Buildings Technology @smartbldgstech]

In our Sept. cover story, writer @gideonfinkshap1 explores how today's smart tech could enhance the world's first #LivingBuilding and LEED Platinum building @omega_institute @SkipBackus @Living_Future @USGBC @BNIM @strategythings #smartbuildings https://t.co/K9AfEttolS

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Was a pleasure writing about landscape and architecture at the Morgan

[ARCHITECT Magazine @architectmag]

🌱After a 6-year restoration effort, the @MorganLibrary garden extends the synthesis of architecture, sculpture, and painting to the realm of landscape. @gideonfinkshap1 has more: https://t.co/EbMrNKyhja

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

@MediaREDEF @overbye @nytimes In awe of your prose. The clarity and colorfulness as you write about things that can be hard to grasp, let alone describe to a non-scientist like myself. Found your account after reading today’s piece https://t.co/qVGfeGZ1ni on the black hole @ Milky Way

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

I edited @nyreviewofarch Skyline 63 with a little April 1 twist by Zander Coté. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue, titled "Fooling Around"
https://t.co/iP0vFf6xw5

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

@en_dash @PlacesJournal Thank you, Garrett @en_dash. Your compelling introduction to Mackaye a few years back helped inspire me to contribute to Future Archive @PlacesJournal

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Excited to share this long-form piece I wrote for Places Journal's "Future Archive" series, reflecting on parks and the luxuries of time and landscape: "Luxury for All" https://t.co/ZvhMfai3v2 via @PlacesJournal

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

My review of “Design and Healing” exhibition at @cooperhewitt published in @ArchRecord

[Architectural Record @ArchRecord]

Co-curated by Boston-based @MASSDesignLab, the exhibition at @cooperhewitt highlights design interventions fueled by an indomitable spirit of care. https://t.co/YnRpr9WA5V Photo © Iwan Baan

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

My latest in AN, a review of the exhibition "Cairo Modern" curated by Mohamed Elshahed at @CenterForArch

[The Architect's Newspaper @archpaper]

New York's Center for Architecture has reopened with a show highlighting Cairo's importance in the evolution of modern architecture:
https://t.co/uUGt3t94Ph

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Sharing a little dispatch I wrote re: Barry Bergdoll and David Chipperfield in conversation about museum architecture #DavidChipperfieldArchitects #BarryBergdoll @1014nyc

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

S K Y L I N E 42 is here! Edited by @annaktalley feat. a dispatch by @gideonfinkshap1 + next week's focus on landscape and the built environment. https://t.co/VKwQO5CGiU

[gideonfinkshapiro @gideonfinkshap1]

Particularly inspiring to see #netzero design in a civic building, as I wrote in this piece after interviewing #frederickfisherpartners and #burohappold for @architectmag

[ARCHITECT Magazine @architectmag]

When @FFPXrdsSERF and @burohappold began work on the Santa Monica City Services Building expansion, they made sure the four-story project operated off the grid—all in the heart of a major city. https://t.co/Cvhicj5Izd

[ARCHITECT Magazine @architectmag]

How did @HGA develop a modern take on New England's gabled barns, slate roofs, and covered bridges? @gideonfinkshap1 takes a look at the firm's precisely detailed @SNHU College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics https://t.co/sc2VnCYYNf