No matter how brilliant they may be, architects are responsible for their acquiescence to clients, whose desires eclipse all ...

You have to go through these review and approval processes. It’s just part of doing buildings.” What’s really peculiar about ...

Built Density or Floor Area Ratio (FAR): A real estate metric that measures the total floor space of buildings relative to ...

A 1970 collection of essays, Meaning in Architecture, was on everyone’s reading list (along with Collage City, The ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...

Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin is one of the most-read texts in ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

In one of my early experiments with ChatGPT, I asked it a question that I’m sure every architect has considered at some point: Why do lawyers make more than architects? I’ve been considering this ...

Urbanism trends come and go: Broadacre City, Radiant City, EcoCity. Yet the “15-Minute City” concept—which implies having all necessary amenities within a short walk, bike ride, or public transit trip ...