What I read today Feb 27

• Father-and-Son Architects Leave Multigenerational Marks on a Columbus Library, Bloomberg CityLab

• How the Peacock Chair Became a Symbol of Black Power and Liberation, Arch Digest

• THE LIBERATING CALL OF *THE MOTEL* AESTHETIC, For Scale

  • We are BURDENED by identity performance (see: S*CIAL MEDIA). Few motels try to create “identity” (where hotels are desperate to); why bother? They have purpose, and reinforce that exclusively.

  • ”… an anonymous motel bedroom becomes a symbol of the mobility and rootlessness of modern life”

  • the setting produces a “masterful simplicity, yet one that is layered with psychological ambiguity”