Recently we h ad the honor and privilege of interviewing James Wines for Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, ...
We have evolved to interpret places by scanning them to understand them: looking for patterns, movement, signs of life or ...
Fast forward to the present, and home prices have not gone down but up, and people are still desperate to own one, making ...
Water’s absence has fostered urban instability, ecological collapse, and widespread water insecurity. The climate crisis is ...
The house was built for something over $100,000 in 1984 and was cheaper than the condos across town. We built a one-bedroom, ...
Parish priest Daniele Micheletti expressed exasperation at the “procession of people that came to see it instead of listening to mass or praying,” adding, “I don’t understand this fuss. Painters used ...
An artist’s politicized restoration at a medieval church sparks heated debate.
It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...