The conformity of Haussmann’s blocks gains meaning from the often intimate bricolage of Paris’ other textures.

The Neighborhood That Doesn’t Know It’s a Neighborhood Downtown. A category unto itself. A place one commutes to and from—and maybe this framing is part of the problem. Downtown could be the ultimate ...

The “official” architecture we have seen so far—the ballroom, a proposed triumphal arch, and suggested modifications to the ...

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As a Mexican American interested in the relational nature of cities, the author was fortunate to attend MIT when vestiges of ...

As a Mexican American interested in the relational nature of cities, the author was fortunate to attend MIT when vestiges of radical planning still lingered.

A new Vitruvian trinity—beauty, sustainability, and justice—are the design values we should be defending. Get smart and ...

The conformity of Haussmann’s blocks gains meaning from the often intimate bricolage of Paris’ other textures.

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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 ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...