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

These books, in addition to Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture Without Architects and Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature, along ...

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

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.

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.

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. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading minds.

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 ...