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 New York, NY
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Joined September 2008
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I "interviewed" Pope Francis about the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. archpaper.com/2025/07/shaw-i…

Matt Shaw interviews Pope Francis about the Biennale Architettura 2025

Matt Shaw reviews the Biennale Architettura through a series of questions and answers with Pope Francis pulled from his 2015 Laudato Si’ text.

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I visited the first ever fully virtual World Expo. Here is my detailed report on what it is, and why we should care. #metaverse #osakaexpo #Osaka_2025 forbes.com/sites/mattshaw/20…
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Contain@con_tain1 Oct 2024
Episode 196. Lost City of The Future: The Columbus Indiana Story w/ American Modern author @mockitecture on the midwestern town that improbably became the center of ultramodern architecture in the US...***link in bio
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Ian Volner reviews a new book by Matt Shaw (@mockitecture) that examines Columbus, Indiana’s, extraordinary design legacy. untappedjournal.com/issues/i…

Modernist Town, U.S.A. : Untapped

A new book examines Columbus, Indiana’s, extraordinary design legacy.

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Join us on July 25!
Untapped@untappedjournal17 Jul 2024
Join us July 25 for our next New York Architecture + Design Book Club, focused on “American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana” (@monacellipress), by Matt Shaw (@mockitecture), which zeroes in on the midwestern city’s architectural history. headhi.net/bookclub
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American Modern features words by @mockitecture, photographs by @iwanbaan, and graphic design by @StudioLin. Learn more about the book and how to contribute at our website: landmarkcolumbusfoundation.o…

American Modern — Landmark Columbus Foundation

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Good @mockitecture on everyone’s most loathed object…
Master Prophet@tomravenscroft4 Aug 2023
"The Vessel shows us how bad the vampiric ultra-wealthy are at making public space" – Two years on from The Vessel's closure we ask what went wrong? dezeen.com/2023/08/03/vessel… (via @dezeen)
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J. G. Moore@jgmoore10 Mar 2023
How an Indigenous Architect Came Out of His Shell nyti.ms/3Jrpofa

How an Indigenous Architect Came Out of His Shell (Published 2023)

Chris Cornelius imparts the lessons of his Oneida heritage in the classroom and other territories.

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‘An expansion of the public sphere’: how video transformed the world | Art | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘An expansion of the public sphere’: how video transformed the world

In a new Moma exhibition spanning six decades, pioneering artists are remembered and celebrated for how they tried to use video as a tool for social change

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Wrote a longer piece about the latest show at MoMA, a nice collection of recent public architecture. theguardian.com/artanddesign…

New York, new architecture: how is the city changing with the times?

A new Moma exhibition takes a look at projects for so-called public-facing spaces in the city and what young designers are doing for New Yorkers

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🌱@strategicplant23 Dec 2022
Stop them all. Ban them. Who suffers? Geriatric millennial ordering their 3rd pad thai of the week? The whole economy is rotten.
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ23 Dec 2022
Watch: There have been over 200 e-bike and e-scooter fires this year in New York City alone. Now, the city is trying to figure out how to stop these fires from happening without disrupting the thousands of delivery workers who rely on these devices. on.wsj.com/3YL3QiY

eBike and eScooter Batteries Keep Catching Fire. What’s the Solution?

New York City officials are looking for ways to eliminate e-bike and e-scooter battery fires without disrupting the city’s 65,000 delivery workers, many of whom rely on these devices. Illustration:...

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Contain@con_tain12 Aug 2022
Ep. 122 w/ Matt Shaw @mockitecture An episode all about modern/folk architecture, Disney megadevelopments, + more Up Now 🏭 patreon.com/posts/ep-122-all…

Ep. 122: All That's Solid Melts Into Air w/ Matt Shaw | Contain

Episode about modern architecture w/ Matt Shaw (Architects Newspaper, SCI-Arc). Dubai, Megadevelopments, Hudson Yards, dreams of space,

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artforum
@Artforum2 Aug 2022
“Whereas so many exhibitions tend to overcode their objects with social and political meaning, ‘American Framing’ has the opposite problem,” writes @mockitecture: “It obscures and abstracts its content to the detriment of the rich history on display.” artforum.com/architecture/a-…

Timber Land

A neglected building method comes out of the woodwork

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🏸@angelbyshaggy12 Jul 2022
locked in my house til i get paid, like rapunzel
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can we have a web3 solarpunk world's fair type thing
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My latest for @nytimesarts nytimes.com/2022/02/23/arts/…

A No-Cost Modernist Home, but No Takers Yet. It Needs Moving. (Published 2022)

An Instagram post has boosted preservation efforts for a midcentury-modern home in Illinois. But a plan for its future would need to be in place by April 1, or it might be razed.

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My latest for @guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘They were transforming their countries’: South Asian architecture after British rule

A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence

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