An architecture critic’s history—professional and personal—with Frank Gehry’s most celebrated Los Angeles building.

The architect didn’t just appreciate New York’s built history; he was also passionate about ensuring the best parts of it were saved for future generations.

A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of how cities should work and America’s.

It represented a whole religion built up around conforming to the accepted brand of nonconformity, and Gehry … wouldn’t ...

The broad cultural impact of architects like Robert A.M. Stern is waning. Are influencers killing the celebrity designer?

Among the gestures o f graciousness that are commonplace in Mexico City, the subtle negotiation of shared public space often ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

Atlanta’s skyline tells a story of ambition, reinvention, and social exclusion. At the center of it stands architect-developer John Portman, whose master planning of the Peachtree Center district in ...

Around 2022–2023, I became increasingly aware of the real estate pressures that were driving families out of the city and into the suburbs, and of the urban planning and architecture norms that ...

The reaction to Donald Trump’s proposal to build a new ballroom connected to the east side of the White House has been heated and hostile—a quality it shares with just about every other attempt ...

As a designer in the U.S. working to decarbonize my small part of the design and construction industry, 2025 has been a gut punch. Spending time reviewing Environmental Product Declarations or ...

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 ...