When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience.

In the vernacular world, one describes what a thing is. In archispeak, one describes what a thing signifies. Floors are no ...

New York City is the center of capitalism in the U.S., if not the world, with the churning of real estate deals being to New York what cars once were to Detroit. It is therefore no surprise that the ...

In my long and embattled relationship with Frank Gehry when I was the design critic for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s and then, after that, for public radio and television, one memorable incident ...

I’m not going to pretend that urbanism in Japan hasn’t been celebrated a million times over. But as I contemplate California, it’s clear that we haven’t learned any of the manifest lessons the island ...

Robert A.M. Stern, one of the last starchitects, has died at the age of 86. He was a mentee of Philip Johnson, himself the very model of a starchitect: a designer who sought a cultural presence beyond ...

A lot has been written in recent weeks about Robert A.M. Stern’s immense impact as an architect, educator, writer, and historian. Stern, who passed away in late November, was indeed a trailblazer in ...