This uneven street network and rapid growth also produced substandard lot sizes, often far smaller than the typical ...

ETH: Indeed, the very same, now rebuilt by a president in the 1950s according to its plan revised by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ...

Though it ignores calls for a needed Disaster Registry due to liability or cost, Malibu is quick to hire consultants to ...

A proposal to turn a John Portman-designed skybridge into a space that celebrates the city’s history and design legacy.

An early game idea involved prototyping with cardboard dominoes, but using conversation topics instead of dots. The response ...

A proposal to turn a John Portman-designed skybridge into a space that celebrates the city’s history and design legacy. Get ...

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 ...

Urban planners take pride in knowing, not feeling, communities. Emotion is generally not part of their toolkit. In fact, it is often actively resisted. Most planners are trained to work in an abstract ...

My firm, Orfield Laboratories (OL), has spent 50 years in architectural design, research, and testing, dedicated to the premise that what matters in design is the end user, because design in the ...