The cityscape has its own topography: the smallest row houses sit in the foreground, while taller buildings rise behind them like a distant skyline. Color moves through the display like a ...

The Th omas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C.

AI is a tool for design, no more, no less. Humans are the creators.

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 ...

Every so often, although not often enough, along comes a book that turns the way you look at a topic upside down. Carl Elefante’s Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our ...

Have architects become too enamored of cosplaying as artists?

The Thomas Jefferson Building, Project 2025, and the unbuilding of Jefferson’s democracy.

When architects talk about AI, it triggers me into a Groundhog Day–like reliving of the dire warnings against computer-aided design (CAD) in the 1980s: The field would be decimated, rendered obsolete.

Unlike professions such as medicine, accounting, or law, architecture has a high culture. By this I mean an indulgence in exhibition making, publishing, and archiving—in possessing its own rarified ...

The Thomas Jefferson Building, Project 2025, and the unbuilding of Jefferson’s democracy.

Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new ones.