Unlike those location-bound festivals, Detty December involves the entire city of Lagos, from the upscale beaches of Victoria ...

Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. should be one of the great streets in the world. Instead, it’s got a bunch of starchitect ...

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement ...

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In the early days of my work together with James Rojas, our clients were mainly in large coastal cities. Some of this had to do with our starting point, Los Angeles. We had the most professional and ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A famous skyline can evoke rich associations and unleash the imagination, but the real experience of a city is in its streets. Early humans evolved to see the first 20 feet in front, above, and around ...

Your book argues that the built environment has a profound impact on people’s lives. I agree. And, yet, given the state of architecture today, you wouldn’t know it. Not just with what’s on the ground, ...

Lake Tonle Sap is a part of Cambodia’s inland water system that’s connected to the flooded forests that purify water and buffer communities from storms—an important benefit as climate change makes ...