What Dallas McMansions and a Russian palace alleged to be Vladimir Putin’s have in common
A viral video exposé of a secret castle has sparked protests and questions about style
When I began teaching a class on architecture and film a few years ago, I did not imagine just how urgently relevant the subject would become. Then the coronavirus plague arrived, and all of a sudden every interaction in our lives seemed to be mediated by screens, and the idea of work and the city in the Zoom era was something we were all forced to address.
And then came last month, when an architectural documentary typically, the rather esoteric stuff of public broadcasting sparked a national reckoning with a ruthless authoritarian regime.