Urban designer Dennis Pieprz talks about his new book, Urban Lens: A Photo Diary of An Architectural Traveler.

The internet and AI haven’t killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for.

The internet and AI haven’t killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for.

Climate reckonings are a hard thing to grasp, unless you’ve lived through one: people in western North Carolina standing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing and ...

Despite its dazzling collection of masterpieces, London’s National Gallery has been cursed with a series of ill-advised architectural schemes over its two-century existence. Only once have its leaders ...

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 ...

Humans go to extreme effort to build things. The monumentality of the Pyramids, the complexity of Stonehenge, the glories of Rome—all of these are timeless manifestations of our fundamental need to ...

Christopher Alexander, perhaps the single most effective polymath architect of his generation, has died at the age of 85. Through teaching, writing, building, inspiring technology, planning, and even ...

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, ...