Fast forward to the present, and home prices have not gone down but up, and people are still desperate to own one, making ...

Water’s absence has fostered urban instability, ecological collapse, and widespread water insecurity. The climate crisis is ...

Humans go to extreme effort to build things. The monumentality of the Pyramids, the complexity of Stonehenge, the glories of Rome—all of these are timeless manifestations of our fundamental need to ...

An artist’s politicized restoration at a medieval church sparks heated debate.

Parish priest Daniele Micheletti expressed exasperation at the “procession of people that came to see it instead of listening to mass or praying,” adding, “I don’t understand this fuss. Painters used ...

The name “Sunnyside” originated around 1710, when French Huguenots purchased the land and named it “Sunnyside Hill.” After ...

The 2025 numbers for Architecture Week suggest the momentum is real: participation by design professionals doubled to 505; firm involvement grew to 131 from 96; school programming expanded by 400%; ...

San Francisco, May 2022. Friday, 5:00 p.m. My first time visiting an American downtown. I had just landed, and my first instinct—having grown up walking, exploring, and working in European cities—was ...

Thirty-five years ago, I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of a small cohort of Mexican American students. We were few in number, but we carried big questions ...

As a Mexican American interested in the relational nature of cities, the author was fortunate to attend MIT when vestiges of radical planning still lingered. As a Mexican American interested in the ...

The urban form of Paris is more than the Haussmann blocks that are associated with its formal character, or the quaint scale of the older Marais or Latin Quarter that provide much of the city’s ...