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 ...

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 ...

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

The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C. Built at a time when only a half-dozen blocks separated squalid tenements ...

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.

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.

Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.

Every Christmas during childhood, my mother would take me to downtown Los Angeles to see the animated holiday window displays along Broadway Street. Those trips left a lasting impression, and since ...

In addition to sharing many inherent traits, the fortunes of the former depend on the affordability of the latter.

Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.