The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C. Built at a time when only a half-dozen blocks separated squalid tenements ...

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.

Every so often, although not often enough, along comes a book that turns the way you look at a topic upside down. Carl Elefante’s Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new ones.

Unlike professions such as medicine, accounting, or law, architecture has a high culture. By this I mean an indulgence in exhibition making, publishing, and archiving—in possessing its own rarified ...

Have architects become too enamored of cosplaying as artists?

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 ...

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 ...

It has been a surprisingly rapid ascent for MASS Design Group. Famously founded in 2008 by Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, a pair of Harvard Graduate School of Design students, the firm made an ...