Worship spaces have a seminal difference from all other building types: Beyond solving the problems of every assembly space, ...

Kansas City, Missouri, had never been on my bucket list. But because my community engagement work is national, I travel to ...

In the context of this sobering state of affairs, the film’s protagonist—Milan-based architect Michele De Lucchi—undertakes a ...

How is AI being taught and integrated into the curriculum? I was just watching a video with a chart that showed how long it took different technologies to get to 100 million users: the telephone, ...

It’s hard not to think of Penn Station—the dreary remnant of it still operating today—as the site of some colossal urban planning original sin. When the grand McKim Mead & White terminal was famously ...

Since I don’t gamble, my favorite parlor game when I visit Las Vegas is to imagine the next themed hotel-casino that MGM or Sands is going to dream up. The Katmandu? The Bali? The Zanzibar? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first edition of Waterworks [Princeton Architectural Press, 2003] was a follow-up to my first book, Invisible New York [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998]. It was about all kinds of hidden ...

Urbanism trends come and go: Broadacre City, Radiant City, EcoCity. Yet the “15-Minute City” concept—which implies having all necessary amenities within a short walk, bike ride, or public transit trip ...

There are three primary settings in which lower-density urbanism can be useful, and where conditions favored by YIMBYs are weak or nonexistent: as a replacement for what is currently slated to be ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...