Buildings have long memories. They are intimate witnesses to virtually all of our lives. And after those many decades of ...

What is an architect’s duty to the public? My experience has been that architecture has always had a highly regarded profile without most people fully understanding what we do. Our mandate includes ...

W elcome to the f ourth episode of Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common ...

Thousands of affordable units are protected from demolition because they exist in New York City’s historic districts.

Greater computational power does not eliminate responsibility. Instead, it intensifies the need for informed judgment.

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

For the past three decades, YIMBYs and NIMBYs have been fighting pitched battles across the U.S. for the heart and soul of future development, but the housing crisis has only grown worse, especially ...

It’s hard not to think of Penn Station—the dreary remnant of it still operating today—as the site of some colossal urban planning original sin. When the grand McKim Mead & White terminal was famously ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

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