In either case, the climate-planning clock is now ticking at a terrifying rate. Humanity is faced with a moral dilemma, and an existential turning point, beyond which planning for more democratic and ...

If the profession is to survive, however, we have no choice.

The fall night was crisp and clear. Sunlight was just fading over the Hudson River. I was making my way to the Friends Seminary School on East 16th Street in New York, where I was invited to witness ...

Ever open to change and a challenge, in September 1983, I donned the cloak of the newly anointed urban design critic of the Los Angeles Times to principally cover architecture. But also planning, ...

The proposal has a number of excellent ideas that most progressive housing advocates will embrace. But we all know that the “significantly increased funding” it relies on is not going to materialize.

One of the best ways to discover a place is simply to get lost in it. Fortunately, this is easy to do in Marseille. Compared to Paris, the street patterns of Marseille seem indecipherable, lending the ...

It is beyond dispute that climate change is already affecting the weather, geography, food production, and human behavior in negative ways. Sadly, though, neither the federal nor the state governments ...

The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the spirit.

The deflating tire that is architecture firm billings of late reminds me of how many recessions I lived through over my long career in the field. The first, the oil crisis of the early 1970s, led me ...

It is hard for architects to be transparent. As a profession, we’re shrouded in cliches, both internal and external: the Corbu glasses, the black garb, The Fountainhead. As a result, simple honesty ...