🏠 DREAM FACADES: THE CRUEL ARCHITECTURE OF REALITY TV by Jack Balderrama Morley is publishing March 3, 2026.
Jack Balderrama Morley takes us through reality TV’s labyrinthine properties to illuminate what makes us covet these physical spaces and devour these shows, what that says about America, ourselves, and the future of design.
See what early readers are saying about DREAM FACADES and why this book is “eerily well-timed.”
😉 Perfect to read after your next Love Is Blind binge.
Thrilled to be on It’s Been a Minute on @npr with @bmluse and Liam Dillon to talk reality TV, housing, and Chateau Sheree’s baseboards! Thank you @coreyantonio_@neenpathak for having me on! Link in bio, listen now!!🌞
Taking a break from my relentless book promo to say Beirut is beautiful, and even if it weren’t, the crap happening to it would still be indefensible. I keep thinking about how my taxes fund the crap attacks, and how many American politicians support the country bombing Lebanon, and how quickly things would get better if they were all voted out of office. And how that could actually happen 🌞
Dream Facades is the/a Talk of the Town 🥳 as we always knew it would be 💭 thank you to icon @emmaewallen for inviting me to blab away about Bethenny Frankel and who knows what else. True Jack heads will remember that I wrote a @newyorkermag Shouts and Murmurs of fake housewives taglines a few years ago, and that was my first time writing about reality TV, so this is a real full circle moment ⭕️ thank you also João Fazenda for immortalizing me with Sonja Morgan’s townhouse, which is absolutely where I want to be remembered. I’ll link in my bio 🍎🍎🍎💭🏠
Dream Facades (out now wow go read it) excerpt is online @literaryhub all about @heidimontag and who gets to write their own reality /on-the-beautiful-terrible-villains-of-reality-television/
New guest alert! Get ready for former/ recovering architectural designer, @jackbaldmo !
Join us in two weeks, on March 19th at the @albertarose.theatre —with our other special guests @atsukocomedy , @iamdazeher , and @lauragibsongirl .
Now the managing editor at Dwell, a preeminent digital and physical magazine dedicated to home design, Jack Balderrama Morley is a writer and critic of reality TV architecture. Their writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Architect’s Newspaper, and more.
Hot off the press is his latest book, “Dream Facades: Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV.”
Get your tickets at livewireradio.org! 🎟️
🏠 Happy Pub day to DREAM FACADES by Jack Balderrama Morley!
📺 Right in time to pair up with your favorite reality TV show.
Balderrama Morley takes us through reality TV’s labyrinthine properties to illuminate what makes us covet these spaces and devour these shows, and what that says about America, ourselves, and the future of design.
You can now read an excerpt of DREAM FACADES on Dwell, available via the link in our bio.
📚 Now available wherever books are sold!
Dream Facades review in print! By the generous @evamayhagberg 🙏🙏🙏 in the Jan/Feb 26 issue of @archpaper 💭🏠 thank you also to comrade in being a Jack @yhprumkcaj for publishing. Don’t mind the bare pillows, it’s laundry day
