When you live in a small town, you never expect its name to pop up in national news—nor, to be honest, do you ever really ...

Yes, but it requires patience, dedication, and cooperation among communities, businesses, regulators, and local governments.

Controversies surrounding vanity projects in the Global South have ignited a broader and long-standing debate about the ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

For architects and designers, unbuilt/unrealized projects are confounding, bittersweet, frustrating, elusive, even ghostly—the ultimate what-ifs. Often launched with the grandest ambitions, only to ...

Architecture is suffering one of its periodic identity crises. The last one was circa 2012. Then, the feeling was that architects were misunderstood. Research commissioned by the American Institute of ...

There’s a famous quote—it’s usually attributed to Winston Churchill—that goes, “History is written by the victors.” This cynical and largely erroneous belief could only be true if history was fixed, ...

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 ...

When I started it, I was interested in buses, because not a lot had been written about them as mass transit. They always get overlooked. Rail gets so much attention. I was interested in buses from a ...

Architecture is uniquely conflicted. Buildings are as real as anything we encounter. But the designs for them start as creations that are as conceptual—even fantastic—as anything we can imagine.

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) recently announced that the “professional” status of “terminal architecture degree programs” is to be eliminated as of July 2026. This action could have ...

The Driehaus is about traditional and classical architecture, and I don’t think there’s much interest at, say, Architectural Record in examining those kinds of practices. It’s not considered important ...