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What happens when real life refuses to fit inside a utopian blueprint?
How this planner’s religious upbringing shaped the way he experiences and plans cities.
A conversation with Patricia Negrón Meléndez, president of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
It’s taken decades to reverse the damage that planner Maurice Rotival helped create—and the job isn’t complete.
The Hugging Face fiasco is a serious warning that more rules will not make it safer. Alexandros Washburn thinks cities offer a better model.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is destined to become a landmark and must-visit destination for Los Angeles visitors.
Technology may reduce production hours, but that lengthier process has been a crucial learning time for younger professionals.
A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many of the wrong ones for the next generation.
The profession didn’t lose the public because people stopped caring about buildings. It lost them when architects stopped treating public understanding as part of the job.
Although it has some flaws, a new book laudably surveys the best of contemporary contextual design across the U.S.
An obscure section of the New York City Charter could make equitable and inclusive development a reality.
They understand that cities are not collections of zoning regulations, but living landscapes.
Sometimes, FDNY fights itself—and the city—instead of fires.
There’s lots of content out there about buildings and designers. Does any of it really connect?
Landscape architect and activist Billy Fleming discusses his new book, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions.
Immortality can exist within the building itself, or within an idea that the building carries forward.
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from the bottom up.
Or, when the first image looks smarter than the designer...
We need to stop erecting single-use buildings, architecture’s equivalent of the plastic shopping bag.
For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised benefits of development projects.
John Massengale and Victor Dover have revised their classic book on street design, vitally improving its organization and potential impact.
Even a small Maine village is not immune to the troubles of our times.
Yes, but it requires patience, dedication, and cooperation among communities, businesses, regulators, and local governments.
Vanity projects, corruption, and cultural blind spots are undermining communities.
Mayor Mamdani must appoint members to this organization that are aligned with his larger agenda.
For those of us concerned with the Crescent City’s survival, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can be saved only if it first accepts that it might not be.
A lush setting that reflects a lifetime of memories, relationships, cultural traditions, and journeys.
How the 17th century Amsterdam house turned a battle against water into the modern home.
It was a moment that transcended sports, offering lessons for a collective future.
A conversation with former Chicago Tribune architecture critic.