I n the early 1950s, a wide, slopin g plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 ...

Catholicism made the invisible visible. Love, fear, suffering, death, hope, guilt, forgiveness, and salvation were transformed into objects, images, light, sound, movement, and ritual. An idea did not ...

It’s taken decades to reverse the damage that planner Maurice Rotival helped create—and the job isn’t complete.

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 ...

America is experiencing a loneliness epidemic, as then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in May 2023. His groundbreaking report offered a six-pillar plan for how America needs to respond in order ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian ran a piece on the distressing condition of the Make It Right homes in New Orleans. Wilfred Chan’s article was based, in turn, on an essay written by Judith Keller, an ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

Architecture is suffering one of its periodic identity crises. The last one was circa 2012. Then, the feeling was that architects were misunderstood. Research commissioned by the American Institute of ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

The sitcom Seinfeld didn’t last into the 21st century. But in the popular culture universe, the show is immortal, generating an endless stream of GIFs, memes, video clips, websites, and more. And, of ...

Louis Sullivan here, calling from the great beyond with a plea for today’s architects caught in the endless battle between neoclassicists and modernists. Rest in peace, you say? Not with what I’ve ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...