A 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, 2016My assessment of Ground Zero, in 2018
Published in Log, October 1, 2018Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin
Published in Blueprint, October 13, 2017(all that in 2,500 words)
Published in A+U (Japan), November 6, 2017One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them
Published in Architectural Record, May 30, 2014A history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words
Published in Books, April 16, 2008Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?
Published Architect, April 10, 2016Too 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, 2022A new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space
Published in The Architect's Newspaper, September 12, 2022A Gossamer Serpent in New Canaan
Published in Blueprint, June 20, 2018A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"
Published in Blueprint, July 17, 2016Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations
Published in Architectural Record, April 13, 2016Arthur Cotton Moore designs a curvy metal house to test his theories
Published in The New York Times, September 24, 2000Their new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation
Published in Blueprint, November 9, 2016Perhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2014With the triumphs have come many disappointments
Published at fredbernstein.com, September 2, 2015Give Calatrava a chance!
Published in Architectural Record, December 10, 2013An 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 chapter of the American Institute of Architects), December 26, 2006Many 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, 2007The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?
Published in The New York Times, February 22, 2007The walkable community now has valet parking, and other concessions to the real world
Published in The New York Times, December 9, 2005Restoring 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 conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Published in Dwell, October 29, 2006Visiting the Meiji Mura Museum
Published in The New York Times, April 2, 2006Steven Holl's building for Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
Published in Metropolis, January 17, 2006Boston-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 fate of Rudolph's apartment buildings in the Bronx
Published in Oculus (Journal of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects), October 13, 2005An addition to the Tilles Center soars
Published in The New York Times, January 5, 2005A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation
Published in Architectural Record, December 6, 2004Baby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 2004A review of the Secaucus Transfer
Published in The New York Times, July 11, 2004Pier Luigi Nervi's bus station at the George Washington Bridge deserves respect
Published in Oculus (Journal of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects), November 2, 2003Saving two rusting piers in the Hudson River
Published in The New York Times, September 4, 2003Princeton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time
Published in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 21, 2003Architects 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, 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, 2002Thoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11
Published in The New York Times, October 11, 2001The Florida town so perfect, moviegoers think it's fake
Published in Blueprint, January 1, 2000SOM's student-centered building on Fifth Avenue
Published in Architectural Record, March 2019A look back at Michael Graves's career
Published in Architectural Record, November 14, 2014A Korean firm is part of Record's Design Vanguard
Published in Architectural Record, December 16, 2006A 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, 1998