The Best Articles in Architecture

Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East.

Tradition in the building arts explained the long way around, in three easy to remember rules.

«Beauty is objective and its effects are broadly similar and consistent across cultures and across millennia. For proof I only ask you to study a rose.»

Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared. That means that buildings should be designed to be agreeable – easy to like – not to be unpopular works of genius.

A windowless telecommunications hub, 33 Thomas Street in New York City embodies an architecture of surveillance and paranoia. That has made it an ideal set for conspiracy thrillers.

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Holes in buildings have been around for a while – at least since 1982 when Arquitectonica’s The Atlantis was completed and most definitely since 1984 when the building was featured in the open…

The ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts.

«Roman concrete from seawalls built 2,000 years ago has survived intact for millennia despite the ocean's constant battering.»

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon…

The ground under New York City is sinking 1-2mm per year, partly due to the sheer mass of all the buildings but it isn't the only city to be suffering – what can be done to save them?

By tweaking the way cement is made, concrete could double as energy storage—turning roads into EV chargers and storing home energy in foundations.

City is sinking approximately 1-2mm each year on average, worsening effects of sea level rise and flooding threat

A growing chorus of architects argue we have to build differently with concrete — which contributes to global warming and environmental destruction on a scale that’s hard to fathom — or perhaps…

It’s easy to become blasé about the built world. Tune in more deeply and architectural adventures await around each corner

When I saw a picture of the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome, I knew almost for certain that the brazen and sensuous façade, its concave and convex undulations, must have been desig…

Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to…

Environmental review laws have become a favorite scapegoat among those who lament our inability to build ambitious infrastructure, but the problem runs much deeper.