Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey
Published in The New York Times, July 26, 2002On the street where I lived . . .
Published in The New York Times, October 22, 2002The U.S. "ambassador" makes her presence known
Published in The New York Times, July 4, 2002By 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, 2012Some buildings just couldn't be saved
Published in The New York Times, October 31, 2004Arthur Cotton Moore designs a curvy metal house to test his theories
Published in The New York Times, September 24, 2000Toshiko 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, 2006Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread
Published in The New York Times, August 8, 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, 2008A 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, 2006Was 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, 2007Jennifer 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 2005The 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, 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, 2004The 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, 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, 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, 2003Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.
Published in The New York Times, January 11, 2003Returning to the block I grew up on
Published in The New York Times, September 22, 2002Tekserve lives the Apple slogan
Published in The New York Times, June 20, 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, 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, 2001Can a website write me a new will?
Published in The New York Times, December 14, 2000Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?
Published in The New York Times, October 4, 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, 1999Cities 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, 2012The unlucky architect of the Sydney Opera House
Published in The New York Times, November 30, 2008Some called him India's greatest architect
Published in The New York Times, January 24, 2023When 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
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, 2002The 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
Zumthor, Nouvel and much more
Published in The New York Times, June 13, 2002PARK 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, 2008A 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, 2010For 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