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It’s an admonition we must respect when dealing with this terrific show because the wall and the work hanging on it have a consubstantial relationship. The paintings will eventually hang on other walls, but it is the wall as an infinite, inhuman plane Novros demands we take into account to understand them. Portable murals, as Novros calls them, wall paintings meant to be seen against that blank, meaningless void on which they confer structure, human order. So not sculpture, but perhaps architecture.

50 years ago, in the ‘year out’ between architecture degrees, most of my cohort went overland to London, following a path laid out just a couple of years earlier by Tony and Maureen Wheeler, which became the foundation of Lonely Planet.

The Quincy apartment profile: Arts and Crafts Holdings' first residential project adds residents to the maker spaces it owns around it.

Ryan Scavnicky and photographer Iwan Baan visit the newly opened Sphere in Las Vegas, to understand architecture’s role within society.

Subconsciously most of us know when something is well designed. It works or it doesn’t. It attracts or annoys. It is comfortable or alienating, memorable or forgettable. But good architecture critics, such as Mr. Slipek, help us understand why.