Then things turned ugly. That’s at least according to this document. It claims that after the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space issued its “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture” in 1962, ...

It isn’t often that a pop star releases a music video that aligns so well with my academic research. But that’s exactly what Lizzo did with her new song, “Rumors.” In the video, she and Cardi B dress ...

For more than 25 years, New York–based architect Robert A.M. Stern has designed buildings that seamlessly fit into—and enrich—the Manhattan skyline. There’s the famous limestone 15 Central Park West, ...

The ideals that prompted a revival of classical edifices in America are stronger, and better, than the president who wants to force their return. Federal design guidelines for government buildings ...

My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.

When Thomas Gordon Smith comes to New York, it's not to see Times Square or the latest store in SoHo designed by Rem Koolhaas but to revisit a stretch of dingy gray buildings on Lafayette Street in ...