A portmanteau of car and architecture (for ‘car-centered architecture’), appearing in “A Miami Beach Event Space. Parking Space, Too.” by Michael Barbaro, on the front page of the NYT yesterday: Parking garages, the grim afterthought of American design, call to mind many words. (Rats. Beer cans. Unidentifiable smells.) Breathtaking is not usually among them. Yet here … Continue reading carchitecture