Clay Risen

Clay Risen is an editor at The New York Times op-ed section and the author, most recently, of The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (Bloomsbury Press, 2014). Along with regular articles for the Times, his freelance work has appeared in publications like Smithsonian, Metropolis, Fortune, and The Atlantic. Risen returns to the ARCHITECT fold after a brief hiatus, during which he wrote American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit (Sterling Epicure, 2013). In the past, he has covered the legacies of critics Ada Louise Huxtable and Herbert Muschamp for ARCHITECT, as well as written criticism of his own about an interpretive center addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., social housing built in interwar Germany, and how to fix the Pritzker Prize on the eve of that award’s 30th anniversary.

Clay Risen's Posts

Industrial Projects
Kalasatama Electricity Substation and Suvilahti Graffiti Fence, by Virkkunun & Co Architects

by Clay Risen

A new electricity substation in Helsinki balances community and security, all while contributing to an effort to green the grid.
2019 Studio Prize
Sloan Award: Moving Mumbai: Urban Frameworks for Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront

by Clay Risen

This first-year master's studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Hillier College of Architecture and Design investigated how to improve access to clean water in Mumbai.
2019 Studio Prize
Studio Prize: Micro-Housing for Homeless and Disabled Veterans

by Clay Risen

This graduate and senior undergraduate studio at NC State University's School of Architecture, College of Design saw students work with advocates for homeless veterans to develop guidelines for designing supportive micro-housing villages.
2019 Studio Prize
Studio Prize: Architecture Design Studio 8

by Clay Risen

This fifth-year M.Arch. studio at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning & Design allowed students to explore how to introduce migrants in Granada, Spain, to a new country and a new way of life.
2019 Studio Prize
Studio Prize: The Yamuna River Project: Re-Centering New Delhi, a Piece of the City

by Clay Risen

This research studio at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture allowed students from architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning to rethink the infrastructure of India's crowded capital.