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SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS & COMMENTARY BY GABRIELLE ESPERDY
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Driven to Joy, Core77 Design Magazine, 05.09.10.
Designing Less from Bau to BIM, DesignInquiry Journal: Design-less, 2010 (in collaboration with Anita Cooney).
Less is More Again–a Manifesto, Design Observer: Writings on Design and Culture, 03.08.09.
Failings in Architecture, DesignInquiry Journal: Fail Again, 2009 (co-authored with Anita Cooney).
Review of Hillary Ballon and Kenneth Jackson’s Robert Moses and the Modern City, CAA Reviews, February 2009.
Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
A Manifesto for the Storefront by ArchCollaborators, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, November 2008 (text and temporary installation, co-authored with Omar Toro-Vaca).
White House, Open City, White House Redux: International Call for Ideas, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, 2008 (competition entry, co-authored with Omar Toro-Vaca).
Mapping Identity: from Space to Digits, DesignInquiry Journal: Pass-port, 2008 (co-authored with Anita Cooney).
“I am a Modernist: Morris Lapidus and his Critics,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2007 (link coming soon).
Review of Meredith Clausen’s The Pan-Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream, Journal of Architectural Education, November 2007.
From Instruction to Consumption: Architecture and Design in Hollywood Movies of the 1930s, Journal of American Culture, June 2007.
The Odd-Job Alleyway of Building: Modernization, Marketing, and Architectural Practice in the 1930s, Journal of Architectural Education, May 2005.
“A Taxing Photograph: The WPA Real Property Survey of New York City,” History of Photography, Summer 2004 (link coming soon).
Connecticut\’s Merritt Parkway: History and Design, Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Summer 1992.