Urban designer Dennis Pieprz talks about his new book, Urban Lens: A Photo Diary of An Architectural Traveler.

I n the early 1950s, a wide, slopin g plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 ...

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 ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

I think it took such a long time because AIA was scared of it. When you looked at the reasons they gave over the years for not doing it—too complicated, potential antitrust concerns, and what have you ...

Recently, I resolved that I wasn’t going to be drawn into the silly posturing about how ChatGPT would take the jobs of every experienced architect on earth before 2030, but an intelligent post on this ...

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 ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

I had been running Speck and Associates since leaving the NEA, and I made the lifestyle choice to keep it small. It’s been going great. I’ve had more than a hundred clients in 15 years, done more than ...

Humans go to extreme effort to build things. The monumentality of the Pyramids, the complexity of Stonehenge, the glories of Rome—all of these are timeless manifestations of our fundamental need to ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian ran a piece on the distressing condition of the Make It Right homes in New Orleans. Wilfred Chan’s article was based, in turn, on an essay written by Judith Keller, an ...