Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing to keep your eyes and ...

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

In the vernacular world, one describes what a thing is. In archispeak, one describes what a thing signifies. Floors are no ...

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience.

An architecture critic’s history—professional and personal—with Frank Gehry’s most celebrated Los Angeles building.

I’m not going to pretend that urbanism in Japan hasn’t been celebrated a million times over. But as I contemplate California, it’s clear that we haven’t learned any of the manifest lessons the island ...

It represented a whole religion built up around conforming to the accepted brand of nonconformity, and Gehry … wouldn’t ...