I n the early 1950s, a wide, slopin g plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 ...

Catholicism made the invisible visible. Love, fear, suffering, death, hope, guilt, forgiveness, and salvation were transformed into objects, images, light, sound, movement, and ritual. An idea did not ...

It’s taken decades to reverse the damage that planner Maurice Rotival helped create—and the job isn’t complete.

Architecture has a relevance problem. Not within design schools, juries, awards programs, or the pages of professional publications—architects remain very good at talking to one another. The problem ...

Any survey of the best of contemporary American architecture would be a daunting task. How do you define that, exactly? What are the major themes of laudable environmental design trends emerging right ...

A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many houses for sale. This may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. The contradiction disappears once we stop treating housing as a single, ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has committed to equitable and inclusive policies in his administration, giving us hope that planning and development might finally be based on community needs ...

Although it has some flaws, a new book laudably surveys the best of contemporary contextual design across the U.S. Although it has some flaws, a new book laudably surveys the best of contemporary ...

The profession didn’t lose the public because people stopped caring about buildings. It lost them when architects stopped treating public understanding as part of the job. The profession didn’t lose ...

A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many of the wrong ones for the next generation. A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many of the wrong ones for the next ...