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 ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...

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I grew up in a domestic world that seemed to hospitably reconfigure itself around our family’s evolving interests and enterprises. As my younger brother’s model horse and airplane collections expanded ...

Abele’s stylistic reserve contrasts with the turbulence about style going on within architecture concurrent with his career—challenges to classicism as the fount of inspiration for American civic ...

Having taught the reuse and reinvention of different types of structures at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) […] ...

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 ...

In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood in the middle of the narrow straits, had ...

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 ...

Despite remarkable advancements in technology, the construction documents that architects produce for their clients to communicate a building design and its intent—what are called CD sets—have not ...