In the early days of my work together with James Rojas, our clients were mainly in large coastal cities. Some of this had to do with our starting point, Los Angeles. We had the most professional 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.

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

Sean Ferry and I walked past the waiting room and into the OB-GYN clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Paterson, New Jersey. It was a Thursday afternoon in late July, around noon. A midwife saw us ...

Hurricane Katrina—August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt catastrophe, even after it weakened from a Category 5 storm and plowed ashore near New Orleans at Category 3 strength. It put 80% of the city under ...

As a designer in the U.S. working to decarbonize my small part of the design and construction industry, 2025 has been a gut punch. Spending time reviewing Environmental Product Declarations or ...