Reinhold Martin

It seems that since at least 2012 – the year of the Foreclosed exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art – Reinhold Martin and Columbia University's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture have been infatuated with housing. That exhibition arose from their Buell Hypothesis and since then they have compiled a number of exhibitions and publications geared around housing and the practical (political, economic, etc.) mechanisms that give it form. A couple years ago they published The Art of Inequality, though I didn't pick it up until recently, finding it used at a local bookstore. (With the price dropping to $3.75 from $4.99, it wasn't a matter of price, more of the book being in the right place at the right time.) It is a three-part book: the first is a long, three-part essay by Jacob Moore and Susanne Schindler on housing and inequality; the second is Martin's examination of real estate and architecture; and the third is a mélange of books, terms, and images on the book's themes. Of these, I found the first part the most useful, and I enjoyed the insertion of photos along 125th Street in Harlem, one place where inequality has been making itself manifest this century.… (lisätietoja)