By performing "constituent services," legislators short-circuit the democratic process, weakening separation of powers, equal protection, and other constitutional norms
The New York Times / September 9, 2012
America's housing disparity grows worse
The Huffington Post / December 2, 2011The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored
The New York Times / June 19, 2008The zany artistic duo of Kahn & Selesnick spin fantastical worlds that captivate collectors and critics alike
Introspective (1stdibs) / November 2021Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey
The New York Times / July 26, 2002Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north
The New York Times / November 22, 2007The conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Dwell / October 29, 2006In Central Washington State, Painter Leo Adams unveils his masterpiece: a house that gives new life to found objects
Metropolitan Home / May 2003Pier Luigi Nervi's bus station at the George Washington Bridge deserves respect
Oculus (Journal of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects) / November 2, 2003The veteran actor comes to dinner with the man who has spent decades hiding in plain sight
The New York Times / July 13, 2003Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin
Blueprint / October 13, 2017OMA's design seems to hit all its marks
Architectural Digest / June 27, 2019Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages
The New York Times / December 25, 2005It will be great for the city's economy, its infrastructure, and its reputation
Design Observer / November 13, 2011Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England
The New York Times / March 25, 2007Making buildings resilient does not slow climate change. Usually, the opposite is true.
ARCHDAILY / January 10, 2021
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A+U (Japan) / November 6, 2017The Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers
The Huffington Post / November 28, 2014The high price of Bermuda real estate
The New York Times / September 10, 2006A haven for "multiple chemical sensitivity" sufferers is threatened
The New York Times / July 9, 2005Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?
The New York Times / October 4, 2000Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"
Architectural Digest / November 27, 2017The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work
Architectural Record / June 28, 2021One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them
Architectural Record / May 30, 2014A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN
Blueprint / November 4, 2003There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked
The New York Times / October 1, 2005At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins
The New York Times / January 4, 2007With the triumphs have come many disappointments
fredbernstein.com / September 2, 2015Can a website write me a new will?
The New York Times / December 14, 2000The incredible saga of the bakery founder's loft
The New York Times / January 27, 2007"He's a beautiful poet. But I don't think he was ever the greatest singer."
The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame / November 23, 1990A review of the new American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
World Architecture / February 22, 2002What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?
Architectural Record / May 28, 2021Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form
Interior Design / November 7, 2014Thanks to Rem Koolhaas, Porto, Portugal will never be the same
The New York Times / June 19, 2005Their new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation
Blueprint / November 9, 2016Thoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11
The New York Times / October 11, 2001A new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space
The Architect's Newspaper / September 12, 2022For children of minimalists, only more is more
T Magazine (The New York Times) / November 7, 2009A very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy
Architectural Record / July 1, 202145 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works
The New York Times / September 6, 2004How the Statue of Liberty could be recreated, after a disaster
The New York Times / September 11, 2003The Holocaust survivor who birthed a rock star
The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame / November 23, 1990How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway
Surface / December 25, 2004Merce Cunningham animates Philip Johnson's estate
Interior Design / August 25, 2007Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another shiny office park
Architectural Record / May 9, 2013The controversial journalist and activist opens the (guarded) gate of his Rio de Janeiro home
Out / April 18, 2011His subtractive approach has countless applications
Architectural Digest / November 25, 2017Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score
The New York Times / January 18, 2004A town where Vietnam draft avoiders have made a difference
The New York Times / November 20, 2004"Is Harvey gay? I don't know. I don't sleep with him."
The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame / November 21, 1990And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?
Architectural Digest / December 10, 2019Not as green as we might hope -- or as Apple might suggest
The Architect's Newspaper / September 2007A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener
Metropolitan Home / April 7, 2008Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever
The New York Times / October 12, 2006Gallerist Max Protetch and Museum Director Irene Hofmann fill their Santa Fe home with art
Departures / October 2018The gay backstory of New York's Irish Hunger Memorial
The Advocate / October 6, 2002Give Calatrava a chance!
Architectural Record / December 10, 2013Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village
The New York Times / December 3, 2006A proposal for improving New York's streets.
The New York Daily News / November 4, 2003The gentle architecture of Phase Three
Architectural Record / September 10, 2014A brilliant way to privilege underprivileged children
The New York Times / September 17, 2006The lives of Steven Lofton, Roger Croteau, and their foster children
The New York Times / November 19, 2003The great critic, curator and connector
Architectural Record / September 5, 2014An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture
Architecture / December 15, 2000The Freedom Tower could become a true symbol of freedom
The New York Times / April 24, 2005Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Speeches / talks / November 11, 2021Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Speeches / talks / November 11, 2021Transgender students gain rights, and respect, in college
The New York Times / March 7, 2004Princeton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time
The Princeton Alumni Weekly / January 21, 2003An old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor
Architectural Record / October 26, 2012Following Passive House standards is meant to reduce the amount of energy needed to operate a building. But some of the requirements -- triple-glazed windows, thick layers of insulation -- increase the building's embodied energy. And in some cases the result is a building that emits more, not less, carbon than it would have without Passive House features.
Architectural Record / October 20, 2022A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation
Architectural Record / December 6, 2004Since 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
Architectural Record / May 31, 2021Saving two rusting piers in the Hudson River
The New York Times / September 4, 2003The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?
The New York Times / February 22, 2007How HomeVestors went national
The New York Times / February 19, 2006The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture
Metropolis / August 6, 2005Many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most evocative drawings were by Marion Mahony Griffin
The New York Times / January 20, 2008Mourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street
Interior Design / September 21, 2007The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation
The New York Times / November 7, 2004A thrilling installation at the Dia Center for the Arts explores tranlucency; it's like seeing snow for the first time.
Blueprint / December 1998A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"
Blueprint / July 17, 2016Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.
The New York Times / October 26, 2003Falling for the Infinity Razor
The New York Times / April 13, 2007Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations
Architectural Record / April 13, 2016Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread
The New York Times / August 8, 2008A review of The Full Monty on Broadway
The Independent on Sunday (London) / October 29, 2000A sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.
Architectural Record / October 10, 2022Can a house alone on a mountainside in British Columbia possibly be “climate positive,” as its architects and developer claim?
Dezeen / June 18, 2021Some buildings just couldn't be saved
The New York Times / October 31, 2004Perhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.
The Wall Street Journal / October 18, 2014A magical new building in SoHo
The Independent on Sunday (London) / July 10, 2000Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride
Architectural Digest / February 14, 2022Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.
The New York Times / January 11, 2003Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?
Architect / April 10, 2016Foreword to "52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom: Effective Strategies for Raising Respectful, Happy Kids" by Meg Akabas
52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom / December 13, 2012A history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words
Books / April 16, 2008A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)
Introspective (1stdibs) / July 28, 2018Tired of high real estate prices? Consider the alternative
The New York Times / June 25, 2006The late David Miranda, in his prime
Out / May 11, 2018An interview with Leah Adler, Steven Spielberg's mother
The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame / December 15, 1990What does it mean to be "inscribed in the book of life?" My interpretation.
Speeches / talks / October 4, 2016In 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
Architectural Record / November 1, 2016Living rent-free, Cal Lane makes her mark
The New York Times / January 20, 2008Another embarrassing U.S. pavilion, courtesy of a shortsighted Congress
Los Angeles Times / August 5, 2010Amazon is now the place to sell used books -- but with unexpected consequences
The New York Times / April 11, 2002Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof
The New York Times / March 29, 2007A 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
Architectural Record / January 8, 2016Blue blood meets white architecture in New England.
The New York Times / February 3, 2002Baby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture
The New York Times / October 31, 2004Because our lives depend on it!
Architect / October 31, 2019Because of Hide/Seek, its brave and beautiful show on sexual identity
Out / December 14, 2010A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching
Architecture / August 6, 2004