Catholicism made the invisible visible. Love, fear, suffering, death, hope, guilt, forgiveness, and salvation were transformed into objects, images, light, sound, movement, and ritual. An idea did not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discipline of architecture thinks of itself as learned, but scholarly research eludes the profession. This is a longstanding problem. “Failure,” John Ruskin wrote in his 1848 introduction to The ...

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 ...

I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads ...