Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

In 1921, Loos titled his first essay collection Spoken into the Void; the work was intended as a critique of his Austrian contemporaries’ ignorance of modern lifestyles. Indirectly, the “void” in the ...

Sean Canty, assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder of Studio Sean Canty, invited […] ...

Dogma, proposal for the transformation of an office block, Brussels, Belgium, 2014. Beyond simply offering refuge, the goal of the house has always been to create the possibility of frictionless ...

Perhaps the most telling thing I found is that the definition of a charrette has changed. Most professional architects now equate charrettes with interactive brainstorming sessions. These kinder, ...

Before books, there were scrolls. The ancient Romans, like the Sumerians, stored their extensive scroll collections in “cells,” or pigeonholes (nidus, forulus, or loculamentum), or on pegmata, ...

It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, […] ...

The house will sit in the middle of the meadow, like an object, without spoiling anything. To transform space . . . it is first necessary to eliminate rigid objects, conventional receptacles: one must ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

Forest City and its backstory are emblematic of an emerging issue of a transnational order. Less obvious than the increased capital flows across territories is the flow of territory itself. That is, ...

To my childhood imagination, Disney World was “almost all right,” as the authors of Learning from Las Vegas insisted of the suburban strip, even if I already knew I did not much care for either the ...

How could this vehicular culture be described in words? Which metaphors and methodologies could capture the spaciousness of limitless streets edged by tract houses, multipurpose boxes, and nonstop ...