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

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

How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live (Atria/One Signal Publishers), might suggest that the book explains how ...

The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.

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, ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

In the early 1980s, when I first saw the film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and then read the book, both by William H. Whyte, I was enthralled. I had met Holly, as he was affectionately known, ...

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 ...

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 ...