Architecture never leads culture; it expresses who we are, when we are. And we’re in the middle of a collapse of 20th century ...

Climate reckonings are a hard thing to grasp, unless you’ve lived through one: people in western North Carolina standing ...

I have traveled quite a bit over the years, for work and for fun, looking at cities, places, settings, landscapes, and architecture, always learning. And, in our planning work, we always try to ...

In the early 1950s, a wide, sloping plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 agrarian villages. From that newly blank slate rose Chandigarh, a city conceived ...

A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many houses for sale. This may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. The contradiction disappears once we stop treating housing as a single, ...

An architecture student can now walk into a review with more images than understanding. This sounds harsher than I mean it, but in some ways, it’s extraordinary. A young designer can study a site, ...

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

In the heart of northwestern Europe, an unlikely swamp became an ingenious experiment in domestic architecture. The Netherlands occupied a precarious position in a delta where three of Europe’s major ...

Why do some of us love sports? Why do we invest far too much emotional energy into an activity that is essentially, regardless of how loud we cheer, a passive one? (Jerry Seinfeld famously described ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing and ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...