The design professions should therefore be careful about the way AI is absorbed into schools and firms. If AI is treated ...

Both have survived, on their own terms, for roughly two millennia—which means permanence was never really about the material ...

History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from ...

For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised benefits of development projects.

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 ...

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music’s facade of weathering steel is made of American steel, which is majority ...

Louis Sullivan here, calling from the great beyond with a plea for today’s architects caught in the endless battle between neoclassicists and modernists. Rest in peace, you say? Not with what I’ve ...

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

The rise of generative AI has given every design educator sufficient reason to reconsider both what to teach and how to teach it. Training an architect is a long process, and mapping it onto an ...

When the architect and developer John Portman died last December, the somewhat predictable accolades streamed forth—like a waterfall inside one of his celebrated hotels. His iconic structures, with ...

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 ...

In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote that the U.S. was becoming “an ...