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 ...

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 graduates over several decades. Many of the members of that ...

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

To be honest, I never really believed that the Walt Disney Concert Hall would ever actually get built. It was the most important major architectural icon in Los Angeles designed by starchitect Frank ...

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 ...

A house is the ur-building, the quintessential embodiment of structure as shelter. Over time, as humanity evolved, it became deeply entwined with culture and commerce, with each one built reflecting a ...

Atlanta’s skyline tells a story of ambition, reinvention, and social exclusion. At the center of it stands architect-developer John Portman, whose master planning of the Peachtree Center district in ...

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 ...

The reaction to Donald Trump’s proposal to build a new ballroom connected to the east side of the White House has been heated and hostile—a quality it shares with just about every other attempt ...