If architecture is interpreted primarily as a form of production—drawing generation, documentation management, formal ...

Colin Rowe w as an inspiring teacher, lecturer, studio critic, and design colleague for a significant group of Cornell ...

An excerpt from a new monograph about the Japanese designer, who favors natural materials and a handmade approach. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

An excerpt from a new monograph about the Japanese designer, who favors natural materials and a handmade approach. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

The patchwork facades of contemporary residential structures offer no beauty or sense of a building’s interior structure.

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European ...

Like any good tactical urbanism project, it’s been an iterative process. It’s also important to note from a mayoral leadership and staff perspective, there was strong alignment several years ago that ...

The fall night was crisp and clear. Sunlight was just fading over the Hudson River. I was making my way to the Friends Seminary School on East 16th Street in New York, where I was invited to witness ...