An excerpt from a new monograph about the Japanese designer, who favors natural materials and a handmade approach. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

An excerpt from a new monograph about the Japanese designer, who favors natural materials and a handmade approach. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading ...

If architecture is interpreted primarily as a form of production—drawing generation, documentation management, formal ...

Colin Rowe w as an inspiring teacher, lecturer, studio critic, and design colleague for a significant group of Cornell graduates over several decades. Many of the members of that ...

The patchwork facades of contemporary residential structures offer no beauty or sense of a building’s interior structure.

Since the publication of Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community in 2000, a growing body of research has focused on the decline of civic and social engagement ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

A house is the ur-building, the quintessential embodiment of structure as shelter. Over time, as humanity evolved, it became deeply entwined with culture and commerce, with each one built reflecting a ...

Hurricane Katrina—August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt catastrophe, even after it weakened from a Category 5 storm and plowed ashore near New Orleans at Category 3 strength. It put 80% of the city under ...

Let’s begin with an anecdote. I was in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the passenger seat of my friend C.K.’s car, when we passed a woman walking by the side of the road. “This poor woman,” C.K. remarked. ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

Unfortunately, many residents in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades will not return to rebuild their homes after the recent tragic fires there. As private developers circle the devastation, the time ...