The late David Miranda, in his prime
Published in Out, May 11, 2018The controversial journalist and activist opens the (guarded) gate of his Rio de Janeiro home
Published in Out, April 18, 2011Because of Hide/Seek, its brave and beautiful show on sexual identity
Published in Out, December 14, 2010A sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.
Published in Architectural Record, October 10, 2022Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Published in Speeches / talks, November 11, 2021Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Published in Speeches / talks, November 11, 2021Can a house alone on a mountainside in British Columbia possibly be “climate positive,” as its architects and developer claim?
Published Dezeen, June 18, 2021Architecturally ambitous, it's also a model of international cooperation
Published in Architectural Record, September 12, 2017A temple to honor at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs damages perhaps the greatest modernist campus in the world. And it's by the campus's original architect, SOM
Published in Architectural Record, January 8, 2016Making buildings resilient does not slow climate change. Usually, the opposite is true.
Published ARCHDAILY, January 10, 2021
My assessment of Ground Zero, in 2018
Published in Log, October 1, 2018Not as green as we might hope -- or as Apple might suggest
Published in The Architect's Newspaper, September 2007Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin
Published in Blueprint, October 13, 2017For Daniel Toole, a major commission while still in architecture school
Published in Architectural Digest, January 8, 2018The project marks the nonagenarian architect's latest pro bono gig
Published in Architectural Digest, August 11, 2021The Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers
Published in The Huffington Post, November 28, 2014(all that in 2,500 words)
Published in A+U (Japan), November 6, 2017Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey
Published in The New York Times, July 26, 2002A very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy
Published in Architectural Record, July 1, 2021On the street where I lived . . .
Published in The New York Times, October 22, 2002A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), July 28, 2018One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them
Published in Architectural Record, May 30, 2014Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride
Published in Architectural Digest, February 14, 2022A history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words
Published in Books, April 16, 2008The U.S. "ambassador" makes her presence known
Published in The New York Times, July 4, 2002His subtractive approach has countless applications
Published in Architectural Digest, November 25, 2017And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?
Published in Architectural Digest, December 10, 2019Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?
Published Architect, April 10, 2016The saddest of American crimes evokes the best in American architetcture
Published in Architectural Digest, April 22, 2018OMA's design seems to hit all its marks
Published in Architectural Digest, June 27, 2019Uber and Tinder are just the app-etizers
Published in Metropolitan Home, May 31, 2016Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form
Published in Interior Design, November 7, 2014By performing "constituent services," senators and representatives short-circuit the democratic process, weakening separation of powers, equal protection, and other constitutional safeguards
Published in The New York Times, September 9, 2012Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another banal office park
Published in Architectural Record, May 9, 2013A "national shrine" now hovers over the World Trade Center site
Published in Architectural Record, December 10, 2022The zany artistic duo of Kahn & Selesnick spin fantastical worlds that captivate collectors and critics alike
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 2021Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"
Published in Architectural Digest, November 27, 2017A new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space
Published in The Architect's Newspaper, September 12, 2022America's housing disparity grows worse
Published in The Huffington Post, December 2, 2011Architect Manuel Herz taps into a long history of kinetic architecture
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), August 14, 2018A Gossamer Serpent in New Canaan
Published in Blueprint, June 20, 2018The gentle architecture of Phase Three
Published in Architectural Record, September 10, 2014Can Frank Gehry's firm outlive its founder? Norman Foster's? Zaha Hadid's?
Published in Architectural Record, December 28, 2014A few minutes with Jill Soloway
Published in Blackbook, August 16, 2014A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"
Published in Blueprint, July 17, 2016Lessons on leadership from the Torah
Published in Synagogue, June 16, 2018Technologies that are changing how architects practice
Published in Architectural Record, May 31, 2018Internal competition is one of several successul methods
Published in Interior Design, January 29, 2014This one's a gallery; that one's a publicly accessible private home
Published in Interior Design, May 1, 2014Some buildings just couldn't be saved
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 2004Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations
Published in Architectural Record, April 13, 2016Do you have to be male or female to be married?
Published in The Huffington Post, June 16, 2015"He's a beautiful poet. But I don't think he was ever the greatest singer."
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame, November 23, 1990The Holocaust survivor who birthed a rock star
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame, November 23, 1990"Is Harvey gay? I don't know. I don't sleep with him."
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame, November 21, 1990It will be great for the city's economy, its infrastructure, and its reputation
Published in Design Observer, November 13, 2011Without the old brick house, it's glass-on-glass
Published in Design Observer, October 13, 2011Arthur Cotton Moore designs a curvy metal house to test his theories
Published in The New York Times, September 24, 2000"I can't stand art. I never could," the former artist (now designer) claims
Published in Art Basel Magazine, November 2, 2012Their new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation
Published in Blueprint, November 9, 2016Two great artists as lovers
Published in Out, February 16, 2010Events of the summer of 1969
Published at fredbernstein.com, October 14, 2016The importance of New York to architects' careers
Published in Interior Design, October 5, 2016What does it mean to be "inscribed in the book of life?" My interpretation.
Published in Speeches / talks, October 4, 2016Perhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2014Toshiko Mori's architectural dialogues with the masters
Published in The New York Times, May 8, 2005A quiet alternative to Kyoto
Published in The New York Times, November 13, 2006Let's give the land a rest
Published in Speeches / talks, May 13, 2014Give Calatrava a chance!
Published in Architectural Record, December 10, 2013Foreword to "52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom: Effective Strategies for Raising Respectful, Happy Kids" by Meg Akabas
Published in 52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom, December 13, 2012Barbra Streisand's "barn" in Malibu
Published in FredBernstein.com, November 13, 2012An old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor
Published in Architectural Record, October 26, 2012Another embarrassing U.S. pavilion, courtesy of a shortsighted Congress
Published in Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2010While fighting over his Columbus Circle building, preservationists overlooked another Stone structure just a few blocks away
Published in Oculus (Journal of the New York AIA chapter), December 26, 2006Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread
Published in The New York Times, August 8, 2008Around the world in 20 slides
Published in Culture + Travel, September 5, 2008A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener
Published in Metropolitan Home, April 7, 2008Living rent-free, Cal Lane makes her mark
Published in The New York Times, January 20, 2008Many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most evocative drawings were by Marion Mahony Griffin
Published in The New York Times, January 20, 2008Merce Cunningham animates Philip Johnson's estate
Published in Interior Design, August 25, 2007Mourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street
Published in Interior Design, September 21, 2007A town where Vietnam draft avoiders have made a difference
Published in The New York Times, November 20, 2004My father's bad investment
Published in The New York Times, November 6, 2005The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?
Published in The New York Times, February 22, 2007Tired of high real estate prices? Consider the alternative
Published in The New York Times, June 25, 2006The incredible saga of the bakery founder's loft
Published in The New York Times, January 27, 2007To rebuild their lives, they need barrier-free houses
Published in The New York Times, December 4, 2005There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked
Published in The New York Times, October 1, 2005The walkable community now has valet parking, and other concessions to the real world
Published in The New York Times, December 9, 2005A day trip to Troy, N.Y.
Published in The New York Times, April 7, 2006The museum-going experience of a lifetime
Published in The New York Times, June 23, 2006A dialogue with Judge Alex Kozinski, of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, about the clash between a liberal clerk (me) and a conservative judge (him).
Published in The Green Bag, October 21, 1998Was I being practical, or paranoid?
Published in The New York Times, June 22, 2002The Ottoman emperor-in-waiting lives in a walk-up, rent-controlled apartment
Published in The New York Times, March 26, 2006Amazon is now the place to sell used books -- but with unexpected consequences
Published in The New York Times, April 11, 2002Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village
Published in The New York Times, December 3, 2006Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north
Published in The New York Times, November 22, 2007Building a modernist house in the Hamptons
Published in The New York Times, October 12, 2007In Salem, Witchcraft and Old Architecture
Published in The New York Times, October 12, 2007A Paul Rudolph apartment, untouched for nearly 40 years
Published in The New York Times, October 10, 2007A son designs a Costa Rica retreat for a literary dad
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2007Living with century-old bricks and massive wooden trusses
Published in The New York Times, September 9, 2007An interview with Leah Adler, Steven Spielberg's mother
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame, December 15, 1990Jennifer Luce's triumph in La Jolla
Published in The New York Times, August 23, 2007Cultivation is legal, but it isn't scenic
Published in The New York Times, August 13, 2007Life in multi-culti Brooklyn
Published in The New York Times, August 13, 2007Staying in other people's houses -- in my home city
Published in The New York Times, July 23, 2007Northeastern Pennsylvania Gets Chic
Published in The New York Times, December 22, 2006At home with the Ricky of Ricky's
Published in The New York Times, October 18, 2007Syd Kitson's big deal
Published in The New York Times, July 29, 2006David Mixner moves to Livingston Manor, New York
Published in The New York Times, July 17, 2007Rosie O'Donnell puts her stamp on Family Week
Published in The New York Times, July 23, 2007Affordable housing, near the happiest place on earth
Published in The New York Times, May 18, 2007Falling for the Infinity Razor
Published in The New York Times, April 13, 2007Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England
Published in The New York Times, March 25, 2007Cass Calder Smith comes to New York
Published in The New York Times, May 18, 2007Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof
Published in The New York Times, March 29, 2007Controversy on West 15th Street
Published in The New York Times, June 22, 2007At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins
Published in The New York Times, January 4, 2007Tom Killian and Francoise Bollack keep their interventions subtle
Published in The New York Times, April 24, 2007Young designers mix it up in Greenpoint
Published in The New York Times, June 22, 2007Kulapat Yantrasast's Grand Rapids Art Museum has a light footprint
Published in The New York Times, March 29, 2007Lillian Schloss bought Chinese antiquities early
Published in The New York Times, February 25, 2007Rare public space for Orange County, California
Published in The New York Times, February 4, 2007The high price of Bermuda real estate
Published in The New York Times, September 10, 2006Restoring the Yale University Art Gallery
Published in The New York Times, December 10, 2006Master Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen used his signature vocabulary to create a unique rocky mountain retreat.
Published in Metropolitan Home, December 4, 2006The high-flying designer lands in Miami
Published in Design Miami, December 1, 2006West Village resident Marianne Cusato designs Katrina Cottages
Published in The New York Times, November 5, 2006Especially if the church has already borrowed against the planned buildings
Published in The New York Times, October 29, 2006Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever
Published in The New York Times, October 12, 2006The conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Published in Dwell, October 29, 2006A new house breaks with tradition
Published in The New York Times, July 9, 2006A brilliant way to privilege underprivileged children
Published in The New York Times, September 17, 2006The apartment every celebrity needs
Published in The New York Times, January 23, 2007Marty Skrelunas polishes Philip Johnson's masterpiece
Published in The New York Times, August 13, 2006A review of the cold accommodations
Published in The New York Times, December 17, 2006Modernism arouses ire in the city's historic district
Published in The New York Times, July 13, 2006Latin American art fills one of the city's most dramatic living rooms
Published in The New York Times, December 31, 2006And it's in Newark!
Published in The New York Times, June 16, 2006Designed for isolation, it's now surrounded
Published in The New York Times, May 28, 2006Visiting the Meiji Mura Museum
Published in The New York Times, April 2, 2006Extraordinary ingenuity makes a tiny apartment seem spacious
Published in The New York Times, March 30, 2006A review of the W New Orleans
Published in The New York Times, March 12, 2006Ron Witte and Sarah Whiting live in a modest, modernist masterpiece.
Published in The New York Times, February 26, 2006How HomeVestors went national
Published in The New York Times, February 19, 2006Two hotels in Miami Beach makes waves
Published in The New York Times, February 17, 2006Related Las Vegas sold them, but never built them
Published in The New York Times, January 29, 2006Nationally, ceiling heights rise
Published in The New York Times, January 22, 2006Steven Holl's building for Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
Published in Metropolis, January 17, 2006Saving modernist houses
Published in The New York Times, January 5, 2006Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages
Published in The New York Times, December 25, 2005The Cretellas renovate
Published in The New York Times, December 18, 2005Boston-based architect Adolfo Perez turned a mid-century starter house into a home of substance for design-wise clients.
Published in Metropolitan Home, December 4, 2005Contemplative architect George Suyama built a house for himself and his wife that is as hospitable to the landscape as it is to the couple's guests.
Published in Metropolitan Home, December 4, 2005The avant garde, on Staten Island!
Published in The New York Times, November 27, 2005Assessing the New Orleans real estate market after Katrina
Published in The New York Times, November 13, 2005No more guessing which car to take
Published in The New York Times, November 2, 2005The fate of Rudolph's apartment buildings in the Bronx
Published in Oculus (Journal of the New York AIA chapter), October 13, 2005In Bolinas, a water meter sells for $310,000
Published in The New York Times, October 9, 2005Dealing with the yuck factor
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2005A great base for exploring the Hudson Valley
Published in The New York Times, September 30, 2005A grand lodge near the Grand Canyon
Published in The New York Times, August 7, 2005The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture
Published in Metropolis, August 6, 2005The Twelve Tribes in Oak Hill and Coxsackie
Published in The New York Times, July 24, 2005A review of the $2.7 billion hotel
Published in The New York Times, July 17, 2005A haven for "multiple chemical sensitivity" sufferers is threatened
Published in The New York Times, July 9, 2005Thanks to Rem Koolhaas, Porto, Portugal will never be the same
Published in The New York Times, June 19, 2005A review of the long-awaited Lower East Side hotel
Published in The New York Times, June 12, 2005Small houses buck the McMansion trend
Published in The New York Times, May 22, 2005The Freedom Tower could become a true symbol of freedom
Published in The New York Times, April 24, 2005Contaminated beaches -- and persistent respiratory problems -- hit a region that includes some of America's fast-growing cities
Published in The New York Times, April 23, 2005But there's protection for tenants or former tenants
Published in The New York Times, April 10, 2005Smashing Mies
Published in The New York Times, April 3, 2005The MFA Boston comes to the Las Vegas strip
Published in The New York Times, March 30, 2005Reviving the shores of the Anacostia
Published in The New York Times, March 27, 2005The state of Philip Johnson's buildings
Published in The New York Times, March 27, 2005Infrastrucutre gets a new look
Published in The New York Times, February 27, 2005In Santa Cruz, accessory dwelling units are encouraged
Published in The New York Times, February 8, 2005Review of Browns Hotel, Miami Beach
Published in The New York Times, January 23, 2005Protecting antiquities from war and looters
Published in The New York Times, January 23, 2005An urban pioneer's new venture
An addition to the Tilles Center soars
Published in The New York Times, January 5, 2005How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway
Published in Surface, December 25, 2004Vornado's billboard boondoggle at 34th and 7th
Published in Metropolis, December 24, 2004The great critic, curator and connector
Published in Architectural Record, September 5, 2014A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation
Published in Architectural Record, December 6, 2004An apartment the world deserves to see
Published in Interior Design, December 1, 2004The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation
Published in The New York Times, November 7, 2004With a little help from its sponsors . . .
Published in The New York Times, November 5, 2004Baby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 200445 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works
Published in The New York Times, September 6, 2004A quirky magazine's farewell
Published in The New York Times, August 17, 2004A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching
Published in Architecture, August 6, 2004Finally, someone's paying attention the New York State Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair
Published in The New York Times, July 17, 2004A review of the Secaucus Transfer
Published in The New York Times, July 11, 2004Endowments for the presidential libraries are coming up short
Published in The New York Times, June 10, 2004The Clinton library rises on the Arkansas River
Published in The New York Times, June 10, 2004Can art save a strip shopping center from aesthetic irrelevance?
Published in The New York Times, May 15, 2004Transgender students gain rights, and respect, in college
Published in The New York Times, March 7, 2004The fight for photos of a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece
Published in The New York Times, February 14, 2004Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score
Published in The New York Times, January 18, 2004Roger Duffy remakes the mega-firm
Published in Metropolis, December 24, 2003The lives of Steven Lofton, Roger Croteau, and their foster children
Published in The New York Times, November 19, 2003A puppeteer copes with Parkinson's disease
Published in The New York Times, November 19, 2003Cape Cod's first "gay suburb"
Published in The New York Times, November 14, 2003A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN
Published in Blueprint, November 4, 2003A proposal for improving New York's streets.
Published in The New York Daily News, November 4, 2003Pier Luigi Nervi's bus station at the George Washington Bridge deserves respect
Published in Oculus (Journal of the New York AIA chapter), November 2, 2003Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.
Published in The New York Times, October 26, 2003My philosophy of writing -- and rewriting.
Published in California Lawyer, October 21, 2003How the Statue of Liberty could be recreated, after a disaster
Published in The New York Times, September 11, 2003Saving two rusting piers in the Hudson River
Published in The New York Times, September 4, 2003Pritzker Prize-winners compete.
Published in The New York Times, August 5, 2003Rem Koolhaas's relationship with New York is on the rocks
Published in The New York Times, April 24, 2003The "Ball Four" author cries "Foul Ball" in the Berkshires
Published in The New York Times, April 10, 2003Rice to riches? Or rice to ruin?
Published in The New York Times, March 27, 2003A developer recreates Sunnyside (or tries to)
Published in The New York Times, March 16, 2003Calatrava helps bring tourists to Santa Cruz
Published in Islands, February 5, 2003Princeton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time
Published in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 21, 2003Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.
Published in The New York Times, January 11, 2003The gay backstory of New York's Irish Hunger Memorial
Published in The Advocate, October 6, 2002Tekserve lives the Apple slogan
Published in The New York Times, June 20, 2002How I became a middle aged father.
Published in The Advocate, May 28, 2002Big Architecture in a Small Town
Published in Metropolitan Home, April 1, 2002A Review of Rem Koolhaas' new store in SoHo
Published in World Architecture, March 15, 2002Architects get busy after 9/11
Published in Blueprint, February 22, 2002A review of the new American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
Published in World Architecture, February 22, 2002And not much else (a review of a new Ritz-Carlton)
Published in The Washington Post, February 10, 2002Blue blood meets white architecture in New England.
Published in The New York Times, February 3, 2002Trouble at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture
Published in The New York Times, January 31, 2002What happened to the planetarium's glamorous gizmo?
Published in The New Yorker, November 4, 2001Thoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11
Published in The New York Times, October 11, 2001Edwad Larrabee Barnes Visits Westchester
Published in The New York Times, May 20, 2001Ikea's plans for Westchester draw ire
Published in The New York Times, January 21, 2001An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture
Published in Architecture, December 15, 2000Can a website write me a new will?
Published in The New York Times, December 14, 2000A review of The Full Monty on Broadway
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London), October 29, 2000Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2000A magical new building in SoHo
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London), July 10, 2000My life as a juror.
Published in California Lawyer, May 1, 2000Beware of Dryvit. Artificial stucco, sometimes called EIFS, lets architects and builders add postmodern flourishes inexpensively, but at significant cost.
Published in The New York Times, July 1, 1999A portrait of the memorial designer as architect and artist
Published in The New York Times, March 1, 1999Climbing a volcano in Bali.
Published in The Washington Post, June 14, 1998My life as a sissy
Published in The Advocate, June 15, 1994Cities assess properties remotely
Published in The New York Times, August 20, 2006The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored
Published in The New York Times, June 19, 2008The veteran actor comes to dinner with the man who has spent decades hiding in plain sight
Published in The New York Times, July 13, 2003Moving fabled galleries to a new building, while changing almost nothing
Published in The New York Times, March 14, 2012For children of minimalists, only more is more
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), November 7, 2009The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work
Published in Architectural Record, June 28, 2021David Adjaye and Moshe Safdie remember the Indian architect, who died at the age of 84
Published in Architectural Record, June 17, 2015When her partner, Arakawa, predeceased her, she declared dying "immoral"
Published in Artforum, March 2014A portrait of Ricky Revesz
Published in NYU Law Alumni Magazine, January 2012Joseph Holtzman is putting his award-winning magazine, Nest, to rest
Published in The New York Times, August 19, 2004The Florida town so perfect, moviegoers think it's fake
Published in Blueprint, January 1, 2000Paul Andreu's mega-theater in Beijing
Published in Architectural Record, January 1, 2000Will Coop Himmelblau's "Open House" be realized?
Published in Metropolitan Home, January 1, 2000Bernard Tschumi shares his strategies for winning competitions
Published Architect, October 4, 2007The Oklahoma-born architect built some of the great California houses of the 20th Century
Published in The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2023His descendant, architect Samuel White, leads the tour
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 1, 2021The unlucky architect of the Sydney Opera House
Published in The New York Times, November 30, 2008Not every gallery he designs is a plain white box
Published in Artforum, July 2014Some called him India's greatest architect
Published in The New York Times, January 24, 2023The super-talented architect and designer died too soon.
Published in Interior Design, February 24, 2016When the recession dried up a Texas couple’s credit sources, their architect realized that he had to build their modernist house himself.
Published in The New York Times, October 14, 2010The architect Bing Thom has renovated the home of Arena Stage in southwest Washington, adding a third performance space to the complex.
Published in The New York Times, October 10, 2010The developers of some of the city’s most expensive condominiums would rather wait for the right tenant
Published in The New York Times, June 2, 2011Rubicon Property has raised $8,000 for a group called charity:water, which provides potable water to developing countries.
Published in The New York Times, May 19, 2011The Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village has expanded again.
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2011The newest engineered wood floors, which do not warp over time, have top layers that are made of hardwood and are up to one-quarter-inch thick.
Published in The New York Times, September 28, 2011Next week, 19 groups of architecture students will serve meals at houses they built in Washington, part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Published in The New York Times, September 21, 2011The creation of a small number of high-end units from buildings that once housed multitudes
Published in The New York Times, January 19, 2012My mother’s jewelry isn’t bringing the prices Elizabeth Taylor’s did, but it pays to shop around.
Published in The New York Times, January 1, 2012Real estate developers have begun gobbling up properties in South Florida.
Published in The New York Times, December 27, 2011With the Barclays Center set to open in September, property owners await big changes
Published in The New York Times, May 20, 2012Putting a wealthy donor’s name on a museum can discourage some givers, experts say, but could encourage others
Published in The New York Times, May 14, 2012Photography policies vary widely among art museums, with the more restrictive ones citing the need to protect visitors’ experiences and the artist’s intellectual property, as well as the art itself.
Published in The New York Times, May 14, 2012A history professor at Princeton University uncovers dark tales of caregiving in the decades before America’s social safety net.
Published in The New York Times, February 15, 2012Princeton's first architecture dean was also a very good architect
Published in The New York Times, February 13, 2023
Artist Rachel Whiteread leaves two ghost buildings in the California desert
Published in The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2000
But is it legal?
Published in The New York Times, February 6, 2002A new pedestrian and bike path across the East River
Published in The New York Times, June 11, 2000What I made with salt and pepper shakers
Published in The New York Times, June 14, 2002Why owning a rental property made me uncomfortable
Published in The New York Times, November 27, 1999A booth for a Jewish festival
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 2001Thank Dale Chihuly
Published in The New York Times, July 24, 2005How Not to Measure the White Stuff
Published in The New York Times, February 11, 2003Molded plastic mailboxes are changing the look of suburbia
Published in The New York Times, February 25, 1992Owners of trophy houses leave parts of the city deserted
Published in The New York Times, October 22, 2004184 Markers for the Missing
Published in The New York Times, December 22, 2002Whose property are abandoned bikes, anyway?
Published in The New York Times, January 1, 2000Is it steeling, or just making the streets look better?
Published in The New York Times, June 2, 2002But there are impediments to gay divorce.
Published in The New York Times, April 6, 2003
Here home is in her office. She makes it work.
Published in The New York Times, December 21, 2000
Living off-the-grid appeared to be going mainstream
Published in The New York Times, February 23, 1999A wild ride that isn't over yet
Published in The New York Times, January 6, 2000Black architects are designing Black cultural institutions
Published in The New York Times, June 24, 2004Gil Garcetti is a serious photographer
Published in The New York Times, November 17, 2002Soldiers pursue degrees online
Published in The New York Times, August 15, 2002With its new Journal, SOM critiques itself
Published in The New York Times, September 29, 2002My encounter with the author, aesthete and raconteur Douglas Coupland
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London), January 1, 2003
The house is part of their collection
Published in The New York Times, April 1, 2007The best and worst of Bermuda
Published in The New York Times, October 8, 2006A neighborhood saved by a mural?
Published in The New York Times, May 21, 2012
SOM's student-centered building on Fifth Avenue
Published in Architectural Record, March 2019Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes a crack at elevating Chinese workers
Published in Architectural Record, January 1, 2000Zumthor, Nouvel and much more
Published in The New York Times, June 13, 2002How good it is for brothers to sit peacefully together
Published in Speeches / talks, December 15, 2012A look back at Michael Graves's career
Published in Architectural Record, November 14, 2014Technology could let the tax code get even more complicated.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1999A Korean firm is part of Record's Design Vanguard
Published in Architectural Record, December 16, 2006A house in Memphis cuts it carbon footprint (albeit with offsets)
Published in Dwell, October 2000A tribute to "the Emperor" of Japanese Architects
Published in Architectural Record, December 29, 2022PARK yourself anywhere on Commercial Street, the bustling main artery of Provincetown, and you'll see celebrities, some real (John Waters, Norman Mailer), some fake (that wasn't Cher)
Published in The New York Times, August 11, 2006Article on In Our Own Time: Modern Architecture in Litchfield, 1949-1970, show at Litchfield History Museum in Connecticut featuring more than dozen early modernist houses designed by Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Edward Durrell Stone and others
Published in The New York Times, June 29, 2003In real estate, the secret may be timing, timing, timing
Published in The New York Times, March 16, 2008Toni Griffin lives in a former office building that was converted into 317 rental apartments — the first new luxury building in Newark in more than 40 years
Published in The New York Times, November 28, 2008The Friends of the Los Angeles River want to transform a 130-acre rail yard into a park that would serve as a flood detention plain for a river restored to its natural state
Published in The New York Times, September 28, 2010The creation of a small number of high-end units from buildings that once housed multitudes may seem incongruous, but developers say the decision is driven by the market
Published in The New York Times, January 19, 2012The Terranea Resort, a $480 million hotel, opened last month in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., after the city agreed to a tax rebate plan
Published in The New York Times, July 4, 2009A relatively small project turns into a major renovation
Published in The New York Times, November 4, 2007For Stan Allen and his wife, Polly Apfelbaum, finding a contemporary house in history-laden Princeton, N.J., was a process fraught with disappointment
Published in The New York Times, October 3, 2008Rod Garrett, who laid out Burning Man, the annual festival of self-expression in Nevada, drew accolades for his approach
Published in The New York Times, August 28, 2011The developers of a condo in Chelsea designed by Jean Nouvel are altering the building’s lobby after real estate agents attributed slow sales to the lobby’s design
Published in The New York Times, October 26, 2010The small California town of Bolinas has kept out development for decades by restricting the number of water meters it issues
Published in The New York Times, April 13, 2010Undulating walls of stainless steel will ensure that few units at 8 Spruce Street, designed by Frank Gehry, will be identical
Published in The New York Times, October 5, 2010Sean Strub finally visited Milford, Pa., where he was smitten and found a Victorian in town for $360,000
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 2008A family lives and works in an eccentric space that overlooks the lighting fixture stores that dominate a section of the Bowery
Published in The New York Times, May 18, 2008David Penick, an architect, and Mary Delaney Penick, an interior designer, live in an elegant brick-and-limestone building in Greenwich Village
Published in The New York Times, December 26, 2008Donald Trump’s project for a golf resort on the northeast coast of Scotland, near Aberdeen, hangs in the balance as environmentalists say the rugged coastline should be left undisturbed
Published in The New York Times, July 6, 2008An East-West collaboration upstate from Manhattan sheds light on a houseful of Chinese art
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), November 7, 2008The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes Trabulsi: “People are so comfortable here, they never want to leave.”
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out
Published in Dwell, January 15, 2009When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No problem: David flew 7,000 miles to pop the question at a restaurant in Addis Ababa. A year and a trip to the altar later, the Carmels now live in a Chelsea apartment that’s designed in part to make it easy for David to get around in a wheelchair; a diving accident eight years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down
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When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes
Published in Dwell, October 10, 2009Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors. Fred Bernstein, a resolute lover of neutrals, attempts to expand his horizon of hues
Published in Dwell, February 2, 2009The right hand of the late starchitect, who has an iconoclastic streak all his own, now faces the daunting task of leading the firm she built
Anda Andrei has a slew of new hotel projects–and a chic New York City apartment. Take a tour here
At 27, she commissioned the Seagram Building. Now, a half-century later, Phyllis Lambert deconstructs its legacy in a new book
Bates Masi + Architects and David Kleinberg Design Associates create a contemporary family estate to be passed down to future generations
For their weekend home in Spain’s western countryside, the founders of SelgasCano pair preservation with innovation
Garry Winogrand, the renowned photographer of American life, once observed: “Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
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The memorial design by landscape architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo offers a contemplative space in nature
Published in Architectural Record, November 17, 2022In a post-occupancy visit, Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem’s public library, which stayed open during Covid, is clearly a popular amenity
Published in Architectural Record, October 21, 2022A new beachside building on Long Island embraces environmental stewardship
Published in Architectural Record, March 1, 2022Architect Joshua Ramus discusses the recently-completed exterior of the theater in Lower Manhattan that opens in 2023
Published in Architectural Record, January 20, 2022Reiser+Umemoto's Taipei Music Center is a brawny complex of cubic and crystalline forms
Published in Architectural Record, January 4, 2022In redesigning San Diego’s Mingei Museum, LUCE et Studio engages artists to further the institution’s mission
Published in Architectural Record, December 1, 2021A wood temple on a sacred site opens and closes like a book
Published in Architectural Record, November 9, 2021The man behind the mega-dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responds to criticism that it will create an unhealthy environment for students in rooms without windows
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2021Baroque influences shape this sinuous contemporary church in Southern Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects
Published in Architectural Record, October 7, 2021Still labeled Dubai 2020, the World Expo will open on October 1, complete with a centerpiece dome by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill
Published in Architectural Record, September 24, 2011Projects from around the country reflect an array of inventive affordable approaches
Published in Architectural Record, September 1, 2021What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?
Published in Architectural Record, May 28, 2021Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel
Published in Architectural Record, May 15, 2019Since it opened in 1995, Bruder has been able to bring the building into the 21st century without compromising his architectural vision, of which flexibility was a key part
Published in Architectural Record, May 31, 2021The founder of The Architect’s Newspaper died at age 72 on Saturday, April 11, 2020, in New York, after a long battle with lymphoma
Published in Architectural Record, April 13, 2020The British-born designer of Boston City Hall died Friday, March 27, 2020, at age 84, after contracting COVID-19
Published in Architectural Record, March 31, 2020The architect and urban designer died at the age of 88 at his home in East Hampton, New York
Published in Architectural Record, May 11, 2020The 1,653-foot-high building will be part of a new Manhattan skyline that not everyone is happy about
Published in Architectural Record, February 8, 2021The architect talks to Record about the firm’s first, and biggest project, still incomplete, for Dissona
Published in Architectural Record, July 27, 2021Richard Gluckman reimagines a Con Edison substation for Peter M. Brant’s latest art venue in New York
Published in Architectural Record, March 28, 2019Working on Fallingwater brought out the best in Robert Silman, the structural engineer who died this week at 83
Published in Architectural Record, August 2, 2018The architect and furniture designer, who reinvented the modern office, passed away at the age of 101 last week
Published in Architectural Record, January 28, 2019To lead the profession, firms must nimbly respond to and embrace technological changes
Published in Architectural Record, June 1, 2018Smiljan Radic's beacon-like regional theater in Chile is a concrete structure wrapped as lightly as a tent
Published in Architectural Record, April 5, 2018Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community
Published in Architectural Record, May 1, 2017Architect Hugh Hardy died last week at 84
Published in Architectural Record, March 20, 2017In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit -- and criticize -- Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2016The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile
Published in Architectural Record, November 1, 2016John Belle, who died this week at 84, helped restore several of New York City’s most important buildings, including Grand Central Terminal and the soaring Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden
Published in Architectural Record, September 14, 2016Three of the most eloquent voices at the Venice Architecture Biennale addressed different aspects of the same question: Can architecture improve lives in Africa?
Published in Architectural Record, June 2, 2016If you’re prominent and reach the age of 80, The New York Times may have a writer (possibly this one) prepare your obituary for later use
Published in Architectural Record, June 1, 2016Two teachers have been bringing out the inner architects in Moscow children since the Soviet era
Published in Architectural Record, May 1, 2016In Manhattan, a sleek rectilinear garage and sculptural salt shed brighten the city
Published in Architectural Record, March 1, 2016Thierry Jeannot's Green Transmutation Chandelier (2010) made from reclaimed materials, green dye, aluminum, and light bulbs. Don’t envy Lowery Stokes Sims, the curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, her many recent trips to Latin America. As the force behind New Territories, the museum’s survey of recent design in 14 countries (through April 6), Sims maintained a punishing schedule of studio visits; her itineraries and notes are viewable on iPads in the museum’s ingenious “Curator Lab.” Sims discovered many more worthwhile items, most of them by young designers, than the museum had room for. Her other challenge
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014A dark and mysterious pavilion—the first new arrival in two decades—shakes up the Venice Biennale
Published in Architectural Record, July 16, 2015By running their fingers across new “super-high-definition smart tables," visitors make shapes that are then displayed as hats, lamps, tables, vases, chairs, or buildings
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014Open since May 1, this tightly packed world's fair of architectural hits and misses runs through October 31. UK Pavilion by Tristan Simmonds in collaboration with BDP and Stage One. The first world exposition, held in London in 1851, occupied Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace. But during the last century, expos (also called world's fairs) evolved into collections of national pavilions that competed for attention with novel and grandiose building designs. The Shanghai Expo in 2010 kicked off the “Asian century” with a show of architectural pyrotechnics that reportedly attracted 73 million visitors
Published in Architectural Record, June 16, 2015At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture
Published in Architectural Record, July 16, 2015Joy's 1,000-square-foot station is part of the redevelopment of the southwest corner of the Princeton University campus
Published in Architectural Record, February 11, 2015Jon Jerde often said “the communal experience is a designable event,” and he proved it over and over during a 50-year-career. The architect, who died this week at 75, created ersatz downtowns, really elaborate malls with vast garages. His most famous project was Universal CityWalk, a hilltop shopping-and-entertainment center in Los Angeles, completed in 1993. Herbert Muschamp, the longtime architecture critic of The New York Times, admired CityWalk’s showbiz vitality. Jerde, he famously wrote, was more likely to be nominated for an Oscar than a Pritzker
Published in Architectural Record, February 11, 2015The billionaire chats with RECORD about his Thomas Heatherwick-designed island, disagreeing with Frank Gehry, and why he hates Jean Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue
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Allied Works's Brad Cloepfil bravely tackles the redo for New York City's Museum of Arts and Design
Published in Architectural Record, February 1, 2009Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art
Published in Architectural Record, October 17, 2011In the Bronx, new parks are opening and old parks are being revitalized at a pace not seen since Robert Moses’s heyday.
Published in Architectural Record, September 16, 2011A pavilion designed by Woods with Christoph A. Kumpusch is under construction in Chengdu, China. “I was never in love with drawing,” Woods says “I drew because I wanted to express ideas.”
Published in Architectural Record, March 26, 2012Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you’re a superstar design firm, steer clear of archi-speak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple.
Published in Architectural Record, June 25, 2012The New York architects recently won the bid to design a condo-hotel building on the Brooklyn waterfront. Image courtesy Rogers Marvel Rogers Marvel has designed a 550,000-square-foot building that steps back from the Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.”
Published in Architectural Record, July 10, 2012Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.”
Published in Architectural Record, December 3, 2013Two architecturally ambitious developments have stalled following accusations of municipal malfeasance. Photo via Wikipedia Following a corruption investigation, bidding has stalled on a $1-billion project to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center site. Architects, no matter how successful, are dependent on clients; even the indomitable Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas can see their best efforts dashed when clients get in trouble. That’s the situation in Florida, where the two starchitects were in the running to design a billion-dollar development on the site of the Miami Beach Convention Center
Published in Architectural Record, September 27, 2012Why is a Washington, D.C., rail revamp moving forward while another in New York can’t seem to pull away from the platform? Image courtesy Amtrak A rendering for an improved West End Concourse extending from New York's Penn Station under the Farley Post Office. Riding Amtrak from Washington’s Union Station to New York’s Penn Station is a trip, architecturally speaking, from heaven to hell. So it came as a surprise this summer when Amtrak announced plans to transform one of those stations into “a world class transportation hub,” at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion
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The renowned Spanish engineer and designer is the subject of an exhibition opening today at Russia's Hermitage Museum—the institution's first retrospective devoted to a contemporary architect. Calatrava speaks candidly with Architectural Record about the show, his work, and the criticism he often faces
Published in Architectural Record, June 27, 2012The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home
Published in Architectural Record, November 28, 2012A new circulating library will be housed within the New York Public Library's main building on 42nd Street in Manhattan
Published in Architectural Record, December 19, 2012It’s hard to imagine a country with more varied architecture than Mexico, and a show at the Palacio de Iturbide is devoted to the last century of that diversity. Mario Pani and Luis Ramos Cunningham. Nonoalco Tlatelolco Housing Complex, 1964. Mexico City. One of the challenges facing the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it gathers material for its planned 2015 show of Latin American architecture from 1954 to 1980, is that Mexico alone warrants as much space as MoMA is likely to allot to the entire region
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014Eight hundred people turned out for what was, in effect, a town hall meeting on the demolition of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien building
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014A competition challenged four architecture firms to come up with new ideas for Long Island downtowns. Utile, Inc.'s scheme for Rockville Centre, where a train station on columns already exists, would add monumental arcades to shelter a garage during the week and a pedestrian plaza on weekends. Proponents of smart growth, which generally involves reliance on mass transit, should find a lot to admire on Long Island, where the nation’s largest commuter railroad carries upwards of 300,000 passengers a day. The trouble is that many of those commuters arrive at local train stations by car
Published in Architectural Record, January 29, 2014Plans to protect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House by placing it on a hydraulic lift to be deployed in case of flooding are proceeding at a rate that has surprised even the plans’ supporters
Published in Architectural Record, May 16, 2014The relationship between Le Corbusier and New York City involved love and hatred, passion and resentment, and ultimately a quest by the architect for “revenge, recognition, and money, money, money,” according to Jean-Louis Cohen
Published in Architectural Record, June 12, 2013When Frank Lloyd Wright’s SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, opens for tours for the first time in 60 years, visitors will see firsthand its functional shortcomings along with its spectacular innovations.
Published in Architectural Record, April 21, 2014Modular housing has already obscured most of the east facade of Barclays Center, long before the building has reached its full height. Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade
Published in Architectural Record, June 20, 2014It's still early in 2014, but already several important modernist buildings have fallen, inclduing Bertrand Goldberg's cloverleaf-shaped Prentice Women's Hospital
Published in Architectural Record, April 24, 2014The role of Jews in creating and popularizing post-war modernism is the subject of a new exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Think Eichler, Levitt, Guggenheim, and Fallingwater.
Published in Architectural Record, July 2, 2014The Rotterdam-based firm West 8 has transformed 30 acres on Governors Island into parkland. Buildings have been leveled and parking spaces have been eliminated on the 172-acre island, leaving plenty of open space. When superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc around New York Harbor, Governors Island was largely spared, in large part because construction of a new park had involved both adding elevation and installing proper drainage. “I’m glad my landscape architect is Dutch,” says Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, referring to Adriaan Geuze, the principal of Rotterdam-based West 8
Published in Architectural Record, May 22, 2014The exhibition materials are displayed in a series of curved vitrines that form a circle within the main room of the Archives building. Japan is one of the many countries—both Eastern and Western—that hasn’t been sufficiently respectful of its modernist architectural heritage. Still, preservationists in most countries would envy Japan its National Archives of Modern Architecture, conceived by the late architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki and created by the government in 2012. The Archives benefits from public funding, its own building (within the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden in Tokyo’s Yushima neighborhood), and, if that weren’t enough, Tadao Ando as its honorary director
Published in Architectural Record, August 18, 2014Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried
Published in Architectural Record, July 18, 2014Architects have something new to worry about
Published in Architectural Record, August 20, 2014The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture can be as unconventional as its founder
Published in Architectural Record, August 21, 2014David van der Leer, the institute’s new director, arranged to swap its longtime quarters on the sixth floor of a Flatiron district building for a storefront space in the same building
Published in Architectural Record, December 22, 2014When Peter Wynne Rees became the chief planner of the City of London in 1985, the famous “square mile” had only one hotel. Now two of the City’s most important Edwardian buildings are becoming luxury hotels.
Published in Architectural Record, June 22, 2013The great Fire Island architect gets the recognition he deserves
Published in Wallpaper*, July 2013Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H3 Hardy Collaboration, SHoP Architects, and SOM present plans to relocate the arena so Penn Station can be rebuilt.
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A confidant of I. M. Pei, Perry Chin was asked to consult on plans to give Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery in Washington new heating, cooling, security, and fire safety systems
Published in Architectural Record, May 22, 2013Game Changer: Columbia University's quirky but tough field house bridges the divide between its gritty surroundings and the athletic playing fields beyond
Published in Architectural Record, May 16, 2013Renewing an important campus by Paul Rudolph poses dangers and the chance to keep his work alive
Published in Architectural Record, February 15, 2013A conversation with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for the development's master plan.
Published in Architectural Record, May 3, 2013The exhibition "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" at Johannesburg's Goethe-Institut explores the need for legal housing for armies of squatters
Published in Architectural Record, March 21, 2013What happens to architecturally important private homes when families who have protected them—sometimes for four decades or more—decide to sell
Published in Architectural Record, April 30, 2013Marmol Radziner has restored and adapted E. Stewart Williams' 1961 Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building for use by the museum.
Published in Architectural Record, November 18, 2014“La Sapienza" is a rarity: a fictional film about real architecture
Published in Architectural Record, March 13, 2015A new book looks at more than 50 recently completed, architecturally ambitious Japanese houses, offering a profound counterpoint to the comparatively safe — in several senses of the word — 21st-century residential design frequently found in the West
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), August 2015The California-based interiors wunderkind creates smart, soulful homes that feel like extensions of their occupants
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), January 10, 2021Alan Eckstein, cofounder of the label Timo Weiland, turns his gaze from fashionable clothing to timeless objects
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 22, 2022Decades into a renowned career, the Seattle architect Tom Kundig continues using humble materials to create pared-down forms that exist in harmony with their often-spectacular settings
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), March 30, 2015The American designer has built his reputation on helping clients express their personalities through their homes
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 3, 2022Working from his studios in Chicago and New York City, Dirk Denison designs residences that are uniquely tailored to the individuals who call them home
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 2018As much sculptors of space and curators of experience as they are architects, the partners of San Francisco's Aidlin Darling Design create emotionally evocative residences that appeal to more than just the eye
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 30, 2015The Academy Award–winning actress and design maven tells us how she turned to the image-collecting site for inspiration in planning her new house
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 29, 2017The late starchitect had a penchant — and a gift — for designing instantly iconic objects, from cars to sofas to bracelets
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 16, 2016The exhibitions look at daily life in very different ways: via mid-century modernist interiors and through temporary homes for refugees
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 28, 2016The California architect has found herself in high demand, thanks to her floating foundations and walls that open to the world
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), January 1, 2000Brazil’s leading design talent executes Bauhaus minimalism with near-magical moments of drama in a string of understated hotels and homes
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), April 25, 2016He designed the London Eye with his wife -- then mortgaged their house to get it built
Published in Architectural Digest, October 10, 2017Equal parts preservationist and renovationist, California-born Brooklyn-based architect Elizabeth Roberts has cultivated a collection of discriminating clients who come to her for sensitive and smart redesigns of historic residences in her home borough
If everything is bigger in Texas, Marfa is the exception. A new book examines the homes in this art-focused desert city, where less is best
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), November 21, 2016The Southern California interior designer has won the trust of her high-flying clients — Hollywood movers and shakers among them — by creating soulful spaces whose mix of materials, styles, eras and furnishings gives homes meaning and make them feel lively
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), June 26, 2017Architects and designers are using humble timber to create awe-inspiring structures and interiors around the globe
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 15, 2017Fresh off a series of successes (including the new Philadelphia home of the Barnes Foundation) and one preservationist brouhaha (the imminent destruction of their beloved 2001 American Folk Art Museum), the husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are looking to the future, with projects from Mexico City to Mumbai
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), May 28, 2014MDFG cofounders Jeffrey Graetsch and Ashley Booth Klein, who also happen to be a married couple, have filled their apartment and their gallery with works by mid-century design icons
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 7, 2018Smoking might have fallen out of fashion, but these ashtrays have enduring design appeal
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), March 8, 2020Having created rarefied spaces for decades, the legendary French designer has finally agreed to document his impressive body of work in a new book
Published in Introspective (1stdibs), October 10, 2016A 35-foot-high billboard on the facade of the Port Authority Bus Terminal will obscure the strengths of the building's 1980's renovation
Published in The New York Times, December 20, 1998In several apartments in Los Angeles, the architecture critic has created murals that fool the eye into connecting distinct surfaces
Published in The New York Times, January 12, 2011As Brooklyn’s residential building boom continues, more luxury buildings are going up alongside Green-Wood Cemetery
Published in The New York Times, April 8, 2007If Harvard had a hotel school, its summa cum laude graduates would want to work at Veritas
Published in The New York Times, July 29, 2010The views are exceptional, but the entire building creaks -- loudly -- when it's windy
Published in The New York Times, May 27, 2010The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., will open an $8-million building that artists can saw through, drill through, and generally mangle, just as they did at the museum's original home
Published in The New York Times, June 4, 2004Built in 1915 and used as a machinery warehouse until last year, the Grand Machinery Exchange is being converted to 14 condos by gallery owner Max Protetch
Published in The New York Times, March 18, 2007Mr. Rowen was a highly regarded architect whose modernist designs attracted a number of promient clients
Published in The New York Times, November 23, 2009The developers of On Prospect Park, a Richard Meier building, have reworked the interiors to include more family-sized apartments
Published in The New York Times, May 28, 2010A Bulgarian immigrant finds that thrift and ingenuity go a long way in a tiny apartment
Published in The New York Times, February 2, 2011Bringing in an architect to reconcile her taste for bling and his taste for Bauhaus
Published in The New York Times, January 27, 2008The owner and chef of the Quilted Giraffe in the 1970s and ’80s has a simple recipe for home design: Anything goes.
Published in The New York Times, June 5, 2008Philip Johnson's synagogue in Port Chester, New York, is now as practical as it is beautiful
Published in The New York Times, February 18, 2007The playwright John Patrick Shanley has had a lifelong fascination with color -- as seen in his latest apartment
Published in The New York Times, June 29, 2009A new 168-page supplement makes the city’s 1,500-page zoning resolution a little less daunting
Published in The New York Times, February 3, 2011The Florida capital as a weekend destination
Published in The New York Times, May 13, 2005Paradors were once essential stops for visitors to the Spanish provinces. They're becoming that again.
Published in The New York Times, July 23, 2006A PTAC — package terminal air-conditioner — can be an ugly intrusion, and a great convenience
Published in The New York Times, January 14, 2011For this couple, it's all about love -- and architecture
Published in The New York Times, May 9, 2004A group of Auburn University students are designing a bridge for Volkswagen’s planned factory in Tennessee
Published in The New York Times, January 26, 2010Paul Rudolph designed this glamorous apartment nearly four decades ago. It still dazzles today
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times), October 7, 2007For Jacques Lowe's book marking the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, photos destroyed in the World Trade Center attacks were digitally recreated
Published in The New York Times, January 15, 2004A university museum in Iowa, operating without a building, instead takes its collection on the road
Published in The New York Times, March 16, 2011Scott Salvator has a lot of very funny things to say about a serious lobby restoration
Published in The New York Times, June 4, 2010The Standard and the Setai play to different strengths
Published in The New York Times, February 17, 2006The three-year, $44 million restoration is a hit
Published in The New York Times, December 10, 2006
Carlos Brillembourg, an architect, and Karin Waisman, an artist, built a modern house in the Hamptons that is spacious, spare and stylish
Published in The New York Times, July 24, 2008A modest income qualified this actor for affordable, convenient housing.
Published in The New York Times, October 7, 2006A hotel I should have skipped
Published in The New York Times, June 16, 2006