Kate Wagner on Muck Rack

Kate Wagner

As seen in: The Nation, Medium, MSN, MSN New Zealand, Bloomberg CityLab, The Washington Post, Washington Post Opinions, Yahoo Canada, Aol, TED, The Atlantic and
architecture critic @thenation. currently writing about the ring cycle at wehwalt.net
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Kate

Contact Kate, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

What Makes American Architecture American?

|
By Kate Wagner
| The Nation
Feature / June 9, 2026 What Makes American Architecture American? It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big. The birth of the skyscraper: Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the mid-1920s.(Kirn Vintage Stock / Corbis via Getty) This article appears in the July-August, 2026 issue, with the headline “What Makes American Architecture American?” In the beginning, there were seemingly infinite natural resources and the violent consolidation of one-third of a continent under a single flag.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

How Trump Got His Tacky Arch Approved

|
By Kate Wagner
| The Nation
May 26, 2026 How Trump Got His Tacky Arch Approved Neoclassical revivalists had to sell their souls. Ad Policy White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shows an artist’s rendering of the arch. (Brendan Smialowski / Getty) One of the less remarked upon reverberations of Trump’s disastrous rule of this country is that he has turned its architectural critics into exegetes of his sleazy plans for Washington, DC’s built environment.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

ARCHITECTURE IN THE 21ST CENUTRY

|
By Kate Wagner
| PIN-UP Magazine
The Rise of Tech and the Death of Discourse by Kate Wagner Collage by Sara Maric for PIN–UP. Architecture has historically been a discipline of slow change; yet, over the past 25 years, the field’s aesthetic and theoretical development has dramatically accelerated.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 397 licensed articles (452 Total)

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Get in touch with Kate

Contact Kate, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified