Arch+ #259 2025 - Wonders of the Modern World illustration the London and International networks

the London and International networks make contact in a series of elegant eighteenth-century public rooms

When you invent the ship

forming a hothouse world within a world that doesn’t nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art

How do our surrounding media and culture contribute to such an attitude

a mirror to our values and a compass guiding us toward the future

Arch+ #259 2025 - Wonders of the Modern World illustration the London and International networksWe all know wonders no longer exist. Nobody builds temples or colossal statues in 2025, right? And yet, to our bewilderment, they are right here in front of our eyes and theyre very, very big!