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

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.

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

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 ...

Have architects become too enamored of cosplaying as artists?

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 ...

Hello. Welcome to a new [clears throat] … brand new channel here on YouTube …” In the summer and fall of 2019, I spent months trying to read a single short script to a camera. At the time, I had no ...