Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing to keep your eyes and ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...