Books in Slab City provide valuable footholds out here in the desert on the edge of society.
Charlie Hailey | Oct 16, 2023
Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination.
Victor Plahte Tschudi | Jul 20, 2023
In 12th-century Paris, a Scottish monk wrote a biblical commentary and inadvertently invented architectural drawing as we know it.
Karl Kinsella | Jun 12, 2023
"Usually, those who do seem to understand the essence of the house begin to behave a little strangely, as if they were under its spell."
Sebastiano Brandolini | Apr 24, 2023
Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices.
François Blanciak | Mar 23, 2023
Green architecture can solve the climate change problem, but only once it stops creating new ones.
Eric Cesal | Nov 7, 2022
Harvard's LCGSA was a significant educational experiment, training one of the first generations of designers in computers and new media.
Evangelos Kotsioris | Oct 6, 2022
How a single image of the Battery Park City landfill captures New York at an inflection point in its history.
Justin Beal | Sep 9, 2022
Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power.
Deyan Sudjic | Aug 4, 2022
An excerpt from Anthony Vidler’s classic book “The Architectural Uncanny.”
Anthony Vidler | Jan 3, 2022
