DCENTER
An Architectural Journal
"There is no there there" -- Gertrude Stein's famous indictment of Oarkland, California has uncomfortable echos in the public image of the District of Columbia as a provincial southern city annexed to the Federal government.
That's all changing as the city is emerging as a dynamic urban center on the cusp of becoming a global city. The journal attempts to re-position the architectural profession as a vital player in the debate over the future of the District.
"The whale has no famous author"
-- Herman Melville.
New writing on our "leviathan," the District of Columbia. Architectural criticism as a lens with which to view the construct of the nation. Irreverent, difficult, sometimes wrong, and definitely irritating.