Nothing in my 25 years of teaching architecture prepared me for what I experienced in my AI studio this semester. The ...

Situations like this are common in infrastructure work. These projects are rarely framed as carbon decisions, even when they ...

Castles are usually treated as historical objects, yet in Poland they are actively built, expanded, and reconstructed today, ...

R obert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto, was published by the Museum of Modern Art ...

In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath of the South Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing an estimated 60,000 residents and gutting one of the most economically diverse urban ...

Water is not a passive element but a living intelligence. Water moves dynamically—swelling with the tides daily, rising with the moon monthly, replenishing the land through seasonal floods, ...

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger is one of many who have raised their voices in alarm at the way President Trump is proposing to alter and add to the White House. There is much to agree with in his ...

When the new White House ballroom images were published recently, I decided to learn about the firms that would take on such a controversial project. My goal was to get away from the histrionic ...

This article was originally published in 2013 in The Architect’s Newspaper as a warning that Los Angeles was headed toward a rapidly approaching fiscal breaking point. Nearly 13 years later, the ...

Since the publication of Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community in 2000, a growing body of research has focused on the decline of civic and social engagement ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

Hurricane Katrina—August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt catastrophe, even after it weakened from a Category 5 storm and plowed ashore near New Orleans at Category 3 strength. It put 80% of the city under ...