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 ...

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

A few of these architecture schools also taught city planning, and fewer still taught urban design. One of the best was Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Cornell’s Urban Design Studio was the ...

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 ...

Atlanta’s skyline tells a story of ambition, reinvention, and social exclusion. At the center of it stands architect-developer John Portman, whose master planning of the Peachtree Center district in ...

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 ...

Welcome to the second episode of Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and ...

U.S. cities are still in recovery—recovery from the devastation wrought by the automobile age and the racist planning policies that accompanied it. In terms of broader planning policy, the new ...

Metrics have been used for years by NIMBYs, YIMBYs, municipalities, and numerous other housing-focused groups to fight for their desired outcomes. But most metrics that are employed are seriously ...