These urban family homes, I soon learned, were made possible by the perimeter block (aka courtyard block)—a building form ...

Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.

With the abdication of federal climate leadership, we must now put our hope in our city and state governments. Over our long ...

A coupl e of weeks ago my friend Kira Gould, the architecture and design super-connecter, sent me an email saying, in essence, This looks new and interesting, maybe you should talk to this guy? The ...

I am interested in contemporary art because it speaks to us of our times and of ourselves,” the German-Spanish art collector Helga de Alvear once said, “because it creates and develops a language that ...

A century after he was fatally struck by a tram, Barcelona’s famed Antoni Gaudí is on track to reach heights never achieved by a modern architect. Earlier this year, the late Pope Francis recognized ...

A talk with photographer Stanley Greenberg about his new book documenting the vast infrastructure of the city’s water system.

In the universality of our mortality, every architect-client collaboration is a unique connection. The island of intimacy that clients and architects occupy is as small as it is intense. Often, dozens ...