What was lost in the process was harder to quantify: the density of small businesses, the overlapping networks of suppliers and customers, the informal economic relationships that give neighborhoods ...

Can Mayor Mamdani forge a new path forward for New York City and the nation?

As technology reduces the time needed to complete tasks, firms need to clarify what clients are actually paying for: expertise and judgment, not billable hours. As technology reduces the time needed ...

As technology reduces the time needed to complete tasks, firms need to clarify what clients are actually paying for: ...

On the importance of drawing: “We’re all part of the digital world to some extent, but there’s now an entire generation of ...

We have evolved to interpret places by scanning them to understand them: looking for patterns, movement, signs of life or ...

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

Water is not a passive element but a living intelligence. Water moves dynamically—swelling with the tides daily, rising with the moon monthly, replenishing the land through seasonal floods, ...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to shape decisions about the physical environment in ways most people never see directly. Algorithms now assist in evaluating proposals, modeling infrastructure ...

Highlights from Episode 5 of Our Buildings, Our Selves.

Have you noticed them? Whether it’s stick-frame-over-podium buildings (above, left) or conventional midrises (right), facades are now canvases for the shallowest of decoration. While most ...

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 ...