Long before the Industrial Revolution brought vertical living, the insulae pioneered the concept of the walk-up apartment.

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

The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.

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

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, ...

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 ...

Existing buildings are full of risk and opportunity. That risk can be revealed in physical or functional deterioration and even eventual failure. In some cases this failure is devastating, as we have ...

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 ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...