Emily Conklin
Emily Conklin is a cultural critic and writer based in New York. Her criticism has been featured in NYRA, Surface, and the Architect’s Newspaper, among others. She is the founder of Tiny Cutlery editorial studio.
The dynamic and distinct experience of becoming an adult child is Jarmusch’s Crimean War.
The exhibition Public Pools is on view at Citygroup downtown. The show takes a historic subject and animates it, using architectural imagination to show us how community really is rooted in design—and that we can activate existing spaces rather than always building, selling, and consuming new ones.
June 2025Architecture
We Will Rest: Seeking Resistance and Recovery During Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale
One of the first exhibitions I saw at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale was the Nordic Pavilion, curated by trans performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona of Finland. Titled Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture, Ala-Ruona sends a clear message: architecture is a performance space. It dictates, or at best guides, our behavior.
Constructing Hope: Ukraine has taken over the gallery spaces spanning two floors of the Center for Architecture (CFA) on LaGuardia Place. Home of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York, the CFA has a long history of programming that attempts to get architecture and architects out of our narrow bubbles and into wider political discourse.
