The university has the opportunity to reconnect architectural education with its own tradition of intellectual diversity and ...

The profession’s “modern” paradigm forbids the revival of past patterns, but new science is revealing that traditional ...

People were close to each other because the place was built in a way that made closeness inevitable. When I moved to the ...

One of the most useful responses I received to my previous Common Edge essay, which focused on how artificial intelligence ...

The subsequent years have seen several design proposals by different interest groups aimed at improving the current nightmare ...

I have been asked to teach architecture several times over the past 40 years. I can do this without academic credentials, ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. For me, this local event marked the beginning of the Latino transformation of the American landscape. When it occurred, however, I was ...