Driving Toward Bankruptcy (Recently updated, but—sadly—requiring only light revision.) Fellow Angelenos, we must build a ...

Created by the Grace Farms Foundation and ACSA, “Design for Freedom” seeks to help AEC professionals engage in ethical ...

The real obstacle to making houses cheaper is the profit-producing rules of big real estate that requires a prescribed size ...

R uben Salazar Park —formerly Laguna Park—in East Los Angeles is one of the most emotionally charged Latino landscapes in the ...

Created by the Grace Farms Foundation and ACSA, “Design for Freedom” seeks to help AEC professionals engage in ethical material sourcing. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture ...

This unfortunate entry sequence is just one of the problems with the lavish new building designed by David Adjaye and ...

What is the 15-Minute City? It’s every city ever built by humans on this planet until a century ago, but with a catchy new name. If a city’s old parts haven’t been destroyed in the past century, it’s ...

For the past three decades, YIMBYs and NIMBYs have been fighting pitched battles across the U.S. for the heart and soul of future development, but the housing crisis has only grown worse, especially ...

For frequent travelers to Europe, it is frustrating to see the increasingly different urban conditions on the other side of the Atlantic. In Europe, cities are largely appreciated and embraced, and ...

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 ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. For me, this local event marked the beginning of the Latino transformation of the American landscape. When it occurred, however, I was ...

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 ...