Drawing is deeply intimate, a personal relationship one forms with the “subject.” By working the matter—inscribing the line that marks the contour, rubbing pastel or charcoal into the paper to denote ...

I’ve been thinking recently about how my all-encompassing Catholic upbringing shaped the way I experience cities, how I plan them, and ultimately how I design them through my interactive models. Today ...

Architecture programs across the country are back in session, so what are students challenged with as the new academic year gets underway? I had a chance to sit down with Patricia Negrón Meléndez, a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I knew him a bit as a community organizer, and then more when he joined the state legislature. But the funny thing is, when it was first proposed, I wasn’t a fan of it at all. Right around the time we ...

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 ...