Van der Laan worked largely outside the architectural profession, living in a monastery in Oosterhout and teaching church ...

The lesson here might be: listen first, design second.

This past fall, I led a graduate design studio at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture in which students used AI to develop innovative, repeatable, and affordable housing ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.

The two ends of Los Angeles’ Cultural Crescent—formed by the majestic Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and their foothills, which ring the northern end of the great L.A. Basin—are gone. For ...

A new book on the Dutch monk-architect tries to explain it all.

It’s that time of year again, when I make my predictions about the collision course between AI and architecture. The “AI is just hype” crowd seems to be in retreat: According to Autodesk’s 2024 State ...

Architecture students don’t often get the chance to step back and consider our place in the trajectory of design, but deep reflection can bridge the ideals of academia with the realities of practice.

Beyond the devastation of the thousands of homes in the singular coastal city of Malibu is the palpable fear among residents that the Palisades Fire has also laid waste to the community’s genii ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning. Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (Norton), is revelatory. It explains how zoning operates in the U.S., both its limitations and dynamic potentials for creating life ...