Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.

Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.

A coupl e of weeks ago my friend Kira Gould, the architecture and design super-connecter, sent me an email saying, in essence, This looks new and interesting, maybe you should talk to this guy? The ...

Urban planners take pride in knowing, not feeling, communities. Emotion is generally not part of their toolkit. In fact, it is often actively resisted. Most planners are trained to work in an abstract ...

Dozens of neighborhoods in New York City have been upzoned based on contrived, and even false, claims made by the city, which promised more diversity, affordable housing, minimum displacement, and ...

I am by no means an expert on public-private partnerships. But for about 10 years, as the University of California Berkeley’s campus planner and then campus architect, I watched these developments ...

On a fine sunny afternoon in late winter, two New York City horse-drawn carriage drivers (sans passengers) sidled along next to each other on Central Park’s East Drive. “In what used to be the Whitney ...

No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.

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 ...

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) the doom of the architecture profession and design services (as some warn) or a way to improve the overall design quality of the built environment, expanding and ...

The problem with being a deliberative writer is that pretty much everything has already been penned by the time you’re ready to write about something. Such is the case with the 2021 Chicago ...