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

As NYC prepares for Mayor Mamdani’s free buses, officials have a chance to rethink some of the city’s most common public ...

I recently talked to Stasiowski about the emergence of AI, how it will affect architecture’s fossilized business model, and ...

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 ...

Given the millions in padded salaries and consultant fees of those processing Malibu fire victim reconstruction plans—and the multimillions more in commissions for realtors, who hover like vultures ...

America’s housing crisis is not a glitch in the system—it’s a feature. For more than a century, exclusionary zoning has weaponized the single-family house, first to keep Black families out, then to ...

George Lakoff is a linguist, cognitive scientist, and popular author who spent his career at the University of California at Berkeley, including the creation of two major laboratories. His research ...

No good for cities or for their design, planning, economics, or people, can come of the emotional assumption that dense city populations are, per se, undesirable. In my view, they are an asset. The ...