The conformity of Haussmann’s blocks gains meaning from the often intimate bricolage of Paris’ other textures.

A new Vitruvian trinity—beauty, sustainability, and justice—are the design values we should be defending. Get smart and ...

The “official” architecture we have seen so far—the ballroom, a proposed triumphal arch, and suggested modifications to the ...

Buildings have long memories. They are intimate witnesses to virtually all of our lives. And after those many decades of ...

What is an architect’s duty to the public? My experience has been that architecture has always had a highly regarded profile ...

Greater computational power does not eliminate responsibility. Instead, it intensifies the need for informed judgment.

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W elcome to the f ourth episode of Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common ...

I graduated from architecture school brimming with optimism. But the self-sufficient homestead my wife and I tried to build ...

Discussing the housing crisis with the co-founders of L.A.’s Livable Communities Initiative.

Resilience isn’t only about carbon reduction or physical engineering; it’s about whether residents believe the systems around ...

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 ...