A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects hav...

Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of tr...

Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundi...

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmente...

Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies a...

Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness an...

Albeit inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has come to be associated with som...

Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the M...

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they...

In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep ...