Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Examples of hostile architecture, also known as hostile design or defensible architecture, are everywhere in cities and public spaces.

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

Discover the synergy of dance and architecture, where space becomes an active participant in shaping human experience and ...

The extraordinary Ark Nova concert hall recently left its home in Japan for the first time. Designed by British sculptor Sir ...

From Architectural Record, May, 1914. Read a PDF of the original article here. Note – In connection with the exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute of the Chicago Architectural Club during April and ...

Following its very own principles, Japanese architecture is a true exhibition in balance: balance between history and ...

Trump’s Executive Order imposes authoritarian aesthetics for buildings, codifies kitsch and signals a broader assault on ...

One of the best pieces of criticism I’ve read this year appeared a couple of weeks ago on the Awl, the online journal best known for affectless and typically New York-centric takes on contemporary ...

In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...