Thinking small can help us answer the challenges of our time.

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The miraculous rebuild was enabled by the century-old French system of trade guilds and education.

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Buildings can be designed to antagonize communities, or serve as welcoming presences.

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If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s profit.

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An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.

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Submitting to this area’s urban rhythm reveals the power of public art to define a place.

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Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.

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The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the spirit.

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The artist is driven not just by curiosity or ambition, but by the precepts of his Quakerism.

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To keep buildings alive and relevant, some flexibility is required.

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They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their domiciles.

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Why we still care, almost seven decades after his death.

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Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.

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Technology can design, but it can’t understand the “why” of buildings—yet.

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Reflections on the project that launched a career.

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How the Statue of Liberty and the Hollywood Sign frame the nation’s inherent tensions.

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Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.

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Why Elon Musk is worse than science fiction.

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An expat goes shopping in the European burbs.

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The solution, surprisingly, lies beyond the walls of our home.

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