An architecture critic’s history—professional and personal—with Frank Gehry’s most celebrated Los Angeles building.

A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of how cities should work and America’s.

Take Atlantic Yards, a 22-acre megaproject in Brooklyn. The city and state development agencies largely ignored community ...

The broad cultural impact of architects like Robert A.M. Stern is waning. Are influencers killing the celebrity designer?

Among the gestures o f graciousness that are commonplace in Mexico City, the subtle negotiation of shared public space often ...

The architect didn’t just appreciate New York’s built history; he was also passionate about ensuring the best parts of it were saved for future generations.

It represented a whole religion built up around conforming to the accepted brand of nonconformity, and Gehry … wouldn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every city needs someone to observe it, sketch it, master its history, and insist that its strengths be defended and reinforced. Sometimes the person who plays this role comes from the other side of ...

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 ...