Drawing is deeply intimate, a personal relationship one forms with the “subject.” By working the matter—inscribing the line ...

Architecture never leads culture; it expresses who we are, when we are. And we’re in the middle of a collapse of 20th century ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today we know R. Buckminster Fuller primarily through his oeuvre of iconic objects and ideas created over the arc of a nearly 90-year life. Born in the last decade of the 19th century, Fuller lived ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...