You have to go through these review and approval processes. It’s just part of doing buildings.” What’s really peculiar about ...

No matter how brilliant they may be, architects are responsible for their acquiescence to clients, whose desires eclipse all ...

A 1970 collection of essays, Meaning in Architecture, was on everyone’s reading list (along with Collage City, The ...

It’s hard not to think of Penn Station—the dreary remnant of it still operating today—as the site of some colossal urban planning original sin. When the grand McKim Mead & White terminal was famously ...

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 ...

For frequent travelers to Europe, it is frustrating to see the increasingly different urban conditions on the other side of the Atlantic. In Europe, cities are largely appreciated and embraced, and ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. For me, this local event marked the beginning of the Latino transformation of the American landscape. When it occurred, however, I was ...

For the past three decades, YIMBYs and NIMBYs have been fighting pitched battles across the U.S. for the heart and soul of future development, but the housing crisis has only grown worse, especially ...

Since I don’t gamble, my favorite parlor game when I visit Las Vegas is to imagine the next themed hotel-casino that MGM or Sands is going to dream up. The Katmandu? The Bali? The Zanzibar? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...