Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.

Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.

Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.

It is a great privilege to speak at this 50th commencement ceremony. Thank you, President David Rhodes, Provost Chris Cyphers, the Commencement Committee, SVA board members and the Greek chorus of my ...

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

When architects talk about AI, it triggers me into a Groundhog Day–like reliving of the dire warnings against computer-aided design (CAD) in the 1980s: The field would be decimated, rendered obsolete.

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

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 ...