The Th omas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C.

AI is still in its early generation, too. If your internet algorithms are set to “architecture,” “design,” or “building,” you ...

AI is a tool for design, no more, no less. Humans are the creators.

The Thomas Jefferson Building, Project 2025, and the unbuilding of Jefferson’s democracy.

The Thomas Jefferson Building, Project 2025, and the unbuilding of Jefferson’s democracy.

These books, in addition to Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture Without Architects and Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature, along ...

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 ...

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs ...

Like any good tactical urbanism project, it’s been an iterative process. It’s also important to note from a mayoral leadership and staff perspective, there was strong alignment several years ago that ...