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.

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 ...

Kahn posed fundamental, perennial questions that just don’t go away: What’s the nature of a room? What are the basic spatial forms for human assembly? What are the natural orders of different building ...

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 ...

In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote that the U.S. was becoming “an ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European ...

I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...