South Korean Women Smash Makeup, and Patriarchy

The movement is called “Escape the Corset.” Plus: Jameela Jamil’s social media campaign against those weight loss teas and remembering Harvey Milk.

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Weekly Health Quiz: French Fries, Sports and Genetically Edited Babies

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

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Why New York Lags So Far Behind on Natural Childbirth

Texas has 70 free-standing birthing centers; New York has three. In the city, where Mount Sinai West’s birthing center will soon close, money is one big factor.

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The Path to an American Dream, Paved in Vienna Fingers

For my Indian grandmother, these pretty, perfect, packaged foodstuffs were a marker of making it in the New World.

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Marooned on ‘Love Island’

When a medical crisis asks a young woman to confront the messier aspects of love, she plunges into a reality TV version of romance.

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Less Barf, More Bleach: How to Prevent Nasty Stomach Bugs This Winter

It can survive on surfaces for days, is tricky to kill, and is the source of most stomach bugs in America. It’s norovirus, and we’re headed into prime season. Here’s how to beat it.

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Blacks Are Less Likely Than Whites to Get Treatment for Heart Disorder

African-Americans are less likely than whites to get the newest stroke-preventing medicines for atrial fibrillation, a new study found.

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Why Do None of These Women Care About My Opinion?

A man wonders.

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To Treat Eating Disorders, It Sometimes Takes Two

Romantic partners of someone with an eating disorder often want to help, but simply don’t know how.

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Hard Knock Life: What Are the Turtles Telling Me?

Nothing much makes sense these days, including the visits from my reptilian friends.

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Online Cancer Information Is Often Unreliable

The greater the number of views and “likes” a YouTube video on prostate cancer received, the poorer the quality of the information provided tended to be.

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Watching My Patient Die, Remotely

As more and more hospitals have adopted electronic medical records, their records have become linked and you can follow your patients, virtually, hundreds of miles away.

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The Best Foods for Athletes

More fat? More carbs? How should we eat for peak athletic performance?

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Tiny Love Stories: A Terrible Idea That Works

Modern Love in miniature, featuring five reader-submitted stories of 100 words or fewer.

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We Can’t Hide This Relationship Forever

A reader remains a secret to her boyfriend’s disapproving parents after two years of dating. Can their clandestine love work out long-term?

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The Fallacy of the ‘I Turned Out Fine’ Argument

You didn’t use seatbelts when you were growing up and you lived to tell about it? That doesn’t make it a good parenting strategy.

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Fanfare greets Yangtze Dunes reopening, in Shanghai

CHONGMING ISLAND, Shanghai, P.R.C. — Yangtze Dunes, the newly renovated 18 here at 36-hole Lanhai International Country Club, celebrated its grand re-opening in late October with lavish, weeklong ceremonies that drew a throng of local dignitaries and an international assembly of media, course raters and tour players.

The Yangtze Dunes course reopened to member play in June 2018, following a sweeping renovation from the Melbourne-based course architects at Ogilvy, Clayton, Cocking & Mead (OCCM), who produced what many are hailing as the first proper links track on the Asian mainland. Apropos of its traditional transition, the renovated 18 reopened as a walking-only course, another rarity here, one that necessitated the removal of some 8 km of concrete cart paths.

Several tour pros walked/played the course after competing the WGC-HSBC Champions event held that same week, across town, at Shanghai’s Sheshan Golf Club (whose contract to host this World Golf Championship event expired when Xander Schauffele holed out to claim the 2018 title). They made the trek at the behest of yet another tour luminary on hand for the occasion: Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 U.S. Open champion and a partner in OCCM (www.occmgolf.com).

“While certainly long enough to test the best tour players in the world, the real interest at Yangtze Dunes lies in the strategy of the holes and the great variety of shots required to score well,” said Ogilvy, who praised the club’s crack maintenance team for achieving such firm-and-fast conditions so soon after opening. “While length is certainly rewarded here, success will come only to those with the imagination to find the best way around, avoiding the worst of the hazards and leaving the best angles.

“Modern courses, from a professional perspective, can get one dimensional, rewarding power over all else. Lanhai is a test with more far more nuance.”

Ogilvy’s partner in the OCCM, Ashley Mead, directed the Yangtze Dunes renovation on the ground. Both agree the traditional, tree-less, flamboyantly contoured, scrub-strewn design at Yangtze Dunes ably showcases a design style that remains an outlier across much of the region.

“The mere fact that we’ve created a true links track at Yangtze Dunes makes it stand out from nearly every golf course that currently exists in Asia,” Mead said. “For whatever reason — cultural or climatic — Asian developers have not chosen to build many courses in the links tradition.

“As a firm, we’re deeply committed to designing golf courses that represent the local environment. And here’s a relevant fact: Chongming is the largest alluvial island in the world — alluvial being a fancy way of describing sand islands formed by river currents. So, we’re in China, on a giant sand bar in the middle of the mighty Yangtze River, just northeast of Shanghai, in the shadow of the towering Yangtze River Bridge. This site was crying out for a full-on links and we’re very pleased Yangtze Dunes so strongly accentuates this place and culture.”

Lanhai International CC was founded in 2009. It quickly took its place among the top clubs in Asia on the strength of its 36 holes (including the Woodlands Course, a Nicklaus Design), its elegant Tuscan-style clubhouse, and a distinguished membership drawn from nearby Shanghai.

In late 2016, club fortunes were forever altered when new ownership commissioned OCCM to create a golfing experience that would compete with the world’s best.

The Ping An Group first raised club’s profile and ambitions following its acquisition of Lanhai International earlier in 2016. Founded in 1988, as an insurance specialist (it was China’s first joint stock insurance company), Ping An stands today as a fully integrated, compact, multi-functional financial services group whose core activities center on insurance, banking, and investment. At the close of September 2017, the Group — ranked 16th in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2017 —boasted more than 1.7 million employees (serving 153 million individual customers) and some RMB6 trillion in total assets, with RMB425.78 billion in equity attributable to shareholders of the parent company.

In another move that signals its pursuit of a global profile, Lanhai International CC recently named Joey Garon the club’s Executive Secretary in charge of operations. Garon arrives in Shanghai from China’s Hainan Island, where he served as general manager of Shanqin Bay Golf Club from its inception in 2012. Shanqin Bay remains the only Chinese course to crack GOLF Magazine’s prestigious World Top 100 list (the 2017 ballot ranked this Coore-Crenshaw design #39).

“It’s been a conga line of visitors here since the middle of October. Word of Yangtze Dunes is clearly getting around,” Garon said. “Some may have arrived with a measure of skepticism, but no one left here with any. This is clearly the best course to debut in Asia since 2012. OCCM have produced something marvelous and authentic here — something completely unique to the region.

“The scary thing is, this course is just 6 months old. Strategically, it’s already superb. Aesthetically, its best days are yet to come.”

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Probiotics Do Not Ease Stomach Flu

Treatment with probiotics did not speed recovery from gastroenteritis in children.

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Why Run Marathons?

There’s a magic in the marathon, from every person who cheers to the church choir singing along the course to the running club whose members dressed in unicorn and bear costumes to give out free beer.

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Helping Teenagers to Be Safer Drivers

New drivers are more likely to get into trouble because they lack experience, but the best way to reduce the risk of a crash is to become an experienced driver.

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Family Birthday Rituals, Distinctly Ours

All three children requested the same dish of pasta and ribs for each and every birthday. I stopped cooking it on other occasions, to keep it special.

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Excess Weight Increases Asthma Risk

At least 10 percent of childhood asthma cases may be attributable to obesity.

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Limited-Edition PXG Darkness Operator Putter Unveiled on Black Friday

PXG Introduces New Putter Face Technology with Gripping Benefits

Scottsdale, AZ (November 22, 2018) – PXG continues its Darkness Friday tradition with the release of the limited-edition, serialized PXG Darkness Operator Putter. Tailored to suit any stroke, this blacked-out, mallet-style putter sets up beautifully and provides maximum forgiveness across the entire face.

“This year, the introduction of PXG’s limited-edition Darkness Putter is more than the reveal of a sleek new, murdered-out finish with a sick insignia,” said PXG founder and CEO Bob Parsons. “It is the introduction of our game-changing new face technology.”

Milled from 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum, the PXG Darkness Operator Putter present an innovative, new variable-sized, pyramid face pattern that offers gripping benefits. The small pyramid structures bite into the golf ball cover to create more consistent launch and roll characteristics, as well as an improved feel and sound.

The size of the pyramids varies across the putter face with the greatest pattern density around the center. This is designed to offset ball speed loss typically experienced on mishits, and ultimately leads to more consistent distance control across the entire face.

The PXG Darkness Operator Putter comes standard with five 10-gram weights in the sole, at a finished head weight of 375 grams. The weight kit included not only enables golfers to adjust the overall head weight of the putter but also to finely-tune the dynamic close rate of the head. This helps offset either a push or pull miss tendency.

Each limited-edition putter is emblazoned with the Darkness skull insignia and the number 26, representing the 26th Marine Corps Regiment that Bob Parsons served with during the Vietnam War. The PXG Darkness Operator Putter comes with an exclusive Darkness grip by Super Stroke, Darkness Weight Kit, a signature PXG Darkness head cover and is uniquely numbered according to the order it was milled. 

Available until they’re not, visit www.PXG.com to learn more and purchase PXG’s Darkness Friday special release.

ABOUT PARSONS XTREME GOLF – PXG, A YAM WORLDWIDE COMPANY
Parsons Xtreme Golf (PXG) was founded by American entrepreneur and philanthropist Bob Parsons in 2014. Leveraging breakthrough technology and sophisticated manufacturing processes that integrate high-performance alloys, PXG produces the finest golf clubs in the world. The company has more than 230 global patents issued for its proprietary designs.

PXG's professional staff includes PGA TOUR champions Zach Johnson, Pat Perez, Billy Horschel, Ryan Moore, James Hahn, Charl Schwartzel, and Wyndham Clark. The roster also includes two-time major champions Lydia Ko and Anna Nordqvist, U.S. Women’s Open winner Brittany Lang, and LPGA Tour players Katherine Kirk, Austin Ernst, Christina Kim, Alison Lee, Ryann O’Toole, and Gerina Piller.

PXG offers a full lineup of right and left-handed clubs, including drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges, and putters. For more information, visit PXG.com.

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Weekly Health Quiz: A Deadly Food, the Appendix and Peanut Allergies

Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

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The Caretaker of the Chin Hairs

My mother’s whisker phobia was a proxy for other fears: being helpless, at the mercy of others’ compassion and care; the body’s incessant and inevitable failure; and death itself.

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Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender

Sometimes you’re not meant to be with the guy who is always on time and has already bought the tickets.

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The Alternative Black Friday

Ready for the mayhem of Black Friday? Increasingly, forward thinking brands and conscious consumers are not. This has made way for a new trend in which brands are promoting more sustainable, ethical and eco-friendly Black Friday initiatives taking advantage of the publicity of the big day. Consumers now have the choice of new and innovative […]

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2018 Holiday Gift Books

For this year's roundup of Holiday Gift Books I'm highlighting 36 books by the same number of publishers, arranged alphabetically by publisher – from Actar to Yale. Titles link to IndieBound and covers link to Amazon for easy gift-buying.

Actar
Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea
By Kenneth Frampton, Vincent Mentzel

A slim, 92-page book that sees Siza, with Kenneth Frampton, revisiting the great pool he designed more than 50 years ago in Leça de Palmeira, Portugal.


ar+d (Applied Research + Design)
Towards Openness
By Li Hu, Huang Wenjing

A really nice monograph on OPEN, the firm led by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing that recently completed the UCCA Dune Art Museum.


Arquine
Mexico City Architecture Guide
By Miquel Adrià, Andrea Griborio, Alejandro Gálvez, Juan José Kochen

One of these days I'll make it south of the border to see the great architecture in Mexico City. When I do, I'll have this excellent guide to steer me around.


Birkhäuser
Herzog & de Meuron 1978-1996, Volume 1-3
By Gerhard Mack

A reprint of the first three "Complete Works" on the influential Swiss architects. Per the publisher's website, the set is in German/English, not just German as in the links above.


Circa Press
Archigram - The Book
By Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron, David Greene, Michael Webb

I'm excited to get my hands on this large-format book that catalogs Archigram's activities in the 1960s and 70s and includes 165 pages from the ten Archigram magazines.


Clarkson Potter
Daniel Libeskind: Edge of Order
By Tim McKeough

An artistic, and visually dense and layered take on the architectural monograph, Edge of Center runs through Libeskind's life and important projects. Told in first person through collaborator Tim McKeough.


Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing
By Tatiana Bilbao

This petit book transcribes a lecture given by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao at Columbia GSAPP in October 2016. With a focus on housing, Bilbao makes many logical arguments for improving housing for all.


Hatje Cantz
Neutelings Riedijk Architects: Ornament & Identity
By Neutelings Riedijk

Neutelings Riedijk's buildings and projects are presented in twelve thematic chapters (seam, pattern, cutout, etc.) that focus on expression and identity in a globalized world.


Images Publishing
Architecture Can!: HWKN Hollwich Kushner 2008-2018
By Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner

Closer in size and proportion to a guidebook than a traditional monograph, HWKN's first monograph mixes their words and renderings with professional photos and images from social media.


Island Press
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
By Mikael Colville-Andersen

I learned about Mikael Colville-Andersen many years ago through Flickr, where he has thousands of photos of people on bikes, both in his native Copenhagen and in many other cities and countries. This book collects his thoughts on bicycles and their place in cities.


Jovis
Japanese Creativity: Contemplations on Japanese Architecture
By Yuichiro Edagawa

Architect Yuichiro Edagawa explores the roots of Japanese creativity in architecture, focusing on the role of details in whole buildings.


Lars Müller Publishers
The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit?
By Lydia Kallipoliti

Analyses of self-sustaining physical environments such as Biosphere and Masdar City accompanied by stunning "feedback drawings."


Little, Brown
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
By Mark Lamster

Easily one of the best books I read this year: my review.


Laurence King
Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia
By Salma Samar Damluji, Viola Bertini

Hassan Fathy's Architecture for the Poor is a classic and a must for any architect (I'm grateful to have gotten my hands on a first edition at a used bookstore a few years ago). Earth & Utopia is a beautiful tribute to Fathy's words and buildings, presented as a large-format book with plenty to absorb on every page.


Lund Humphries
The Global Spectacular: Contemporary Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula
By Mark Swenarton

Documentation and comparisons of starchitect-designed museums in China and the Arabian peninsula as well as such nearby places as Azerbaijan and India.


The MIT Press
Garage
By Olivia Erlanger, Luis Ortega Govela

A "provocative history and deconstruction" of that appendage to the American house that's supposed to shelter cars but is often used for other things; a collaborative creation by an artist (Erlanger) and an architect (Ortega Govela).


The Monacelli Press
Le Corbusier: The Built Work
By Richard Pare, Jean-Louis Cohen

A great combination: Around 60 buildings designed by Le Corbusier, photographs by Richard Pare, and words by Jean-Louis Cohen. It's Pare's photos that stand out, drawing attention to the varied states of Corbusier's buildings.

The Museum of Modern Art
Oasis in the City: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art
Edited by Peter Reed, Romy Silver-Kohn

Philip Johnson's great sculpture garden at MoMA turned 75 this year. This coffee table book celebrates the "oasis" in Midtown Manhattan, just as MoMA transforms itself through another architectural expansion.

nai010 Publishers
Too Big: Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change
By Henk Ovink, Jelte Boeijenga

Rebuild by Design is an innovative process for creating resilient cities and coastlines, born from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This book documents the process and the various designs in the works around the USA.

New York Review Books
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin
By Martin Filler

The latest collection of architecture critic Martin Filler's "reassessments" of significant modern architects — all originally published in NYRB — spans from Frederick Law Olmsted to Maya Lin, with roughly 20 more architects in between.

ORO Editions
The Work of Machado & Silvetti
By Javier Cenicacelaya, Iñigo Saloña

I've been a fan of the built and unbuilt "unprecedented realism" (the name of their 1996 monograph) of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti since at least the mid-1990s. This monograph collects projects designed by the duo over the last four decades.

Park Books
House Tour: Views of the Unfurnished Interior
Edited by Adam Jasper

The official publication of the Swiss Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for best National Participation. The labyrinth of empty apartments at various scales drew attention to the literal emptiness of photos of residential architecture in Switzerland.

Phaidon
Drawing Architecture
By Phaidon Editors

Although Phaidon's one-page-per (building, garden, etc.) format is a bit formulaic and inherently shallow, sometimes the subject makes one of these titles irresistible. For me, it's architectural drawings by Zaha Hadid, Roberto Burle Marx, and many more.

Prestel
Modern Spaces: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Interiors
By Nicolas Grospierre

French-Polish photographer Nicolas Grospierre captures the interiors of buildings "both grand and mundane," most I was completely unaware of. The photos are presented as pairs with similar spaces and characteristics but divergent uses and geographies.

Princeton Architectural Press
Studio Joy Works
By Rick Joy

The sequel to Rick Joy's Desert Works presents 13 projects completed by the architect in the last 15 years, many outside his home state of Arizona. Beautiful photographs make this monograph, just like his first one, a must.

Rizzoli
Steven Holl: Seven Houses
By Steven Holl

Sub-subtitled "Luminist Architecture," this handsome, slipcased book documents seven Steven Holl houses completed over the last twenty years, some of them on the architect's own property north of New York City.


Routledge
Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making
By David Seamon

An academic title on phenomenology that argues for the importance of place in our "mobile, hypermodern world." David Seamon was a professor of mine in undergraduate architecture school at K-State, so I'm looking forward to diving into his latest book.


Scheidegger and Spiess
Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work: A Biographic Collage
By Christoph Schaub

One of two new titles on Swiss architect Peter Zumthor from Scheidegger and Spiess (here's the other), this one offers copious insights into the contexts of his work and his self-conception as an artist." (Note: This title is a DVD, not a book.)

Taschen
Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture
By Rem Koolhaas

Koolhaas updates his 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition as a 2,528-page behemoth designed by Irma Boom.

Thames & Hudson
Santiago Calatrava: Drawing, Building, Reflecting
By Santiago Calatrava with Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz

I've heard of exhibitions on the models that Santiago Calatrava has produced over the years, but lost in the shuffle are his sketches, collected and discussed here relative to his bridges, train stations, and other structures.

Timber Press
GGN: Landscapes 1999-2018
By Thaïsa Way

The first monograph of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, it contains such landscapes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus in Seattle, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, and the Lurie Garden at Chicago's Millennium Park.


UCL Press
The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination
By Sophia Psarra

Sophia Psarra paints a portrait of Venice as a prototypical city aided by analyses of Italo Calvino's classic Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier's project for Venice Hospital.


University of Virginia Press
Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
Edited by Charles A. Birnbaum, Scott Craver

The fifth installment in TCLF's "Pioneers of American Landscape Design" project chronicles the lives and work of important landscape designers in an encyclopedia format. Necessary for landscape designers and those interested in the preservation of modern landscapes.


UR (Urban Research)
Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition
By Jordan H. Carver

Jordan H. Carver, a contributing editor to the Avery Review, has investigated the architectural spaces of secret prisons and taken a look into the post-9/11 spaces via architectural drawings.

W. W. Norton
Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
By Norman Tyler, Ilene R. Tyler, Ted J. Ligibel

The third edition of Historic Preservation comes a couple years after the National Preservation Act of 1966 turned 50. One could argue preservation is even more important now, making this a much-needed introduction to the subject.


Yale University Press
City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet
By Karen C. Seto

The authors of City Unseen reveal that the satellite views of Google Earth aren't the only way to see the earth from above. They present traditional satellite views with non-visible wavelengths colored to convey more information about cities and landscapes.

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