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Stanley Abercrombie

Stanley Abercrombie is an architect and writer. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Academy in Rome.

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Oracle in Pearls

Ada Louise Huxtable, able to depict a building in a few memorable words, set the standard for informed and fearless criticism

by Stanley Abercrombie | Friday, March 01, 2013
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A Passion for Architecture

Nuggets from a critical gold mine

by Stanley Abercrombie | Monday, December 01, 2008
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The Tales Buildings Tell

Architects can overwhelm their creations; time can make a hash of great visions

by Stanley Abercrombie | Tuesday, December 01, 2009

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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