This low-lying region, with its ever-shifting boundaries between water and land battered by relentless North Sea storms, ...

Her garden transforms the front yard into an extension of the home and a welcoming space for social interaction. Through ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five ye ars now since Pulitzer Prize–winning Blair Kamin left the Chicago Tribune after ...

And yet, at an advanced age, when I should be acquiring other more compelling interests, I persist. I’m a huge sports fan: I ...

It was a moment that transcended sports, offering lessons for a collective future.

Every city needs someone to observe it, sketch it, master its history, and insist that its strengths be defended and reinforced. Sometimes the person who plays this role comes from the other side of ...

While many architects have long clung to the old “form follows function” adage, form follows brain function might be the motto of today’s advertisers and automakers, who increasingly use high-tech ...

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 ...

When people think about forward-thinking approaches to public space and landscape architecture, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are not often the first places that come to mind. More familiar images of ...

When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...