Fred A. Bernstein

By performing "constituent services," legislators short-circuit the democratic process, weakening separation of powers, equal protection, and other constitutional norms

America's housing disparity grows worse

The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored

The zany artistic duo of Kahn & Selesnick spin fantastical worlds that captivate collectors and critics alike

Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey

Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north

The conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

In Central Washington State, Painter Leo Adams unveils his masterpiece: a house that gives new life to found objects

Pier Luigi Nervi's bus station at the George Washington Bridge deserves respect

The veteran actor comes to dinner with the man who has spent decades hiding in plain sight

Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin

OMA's design seems to hit all its marks

Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages

It will be great for the city's economy, its infrastructure, and its reputation

Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England

Tekserve lives the Apple slogan

Making buildings resilient does not slow climate change. Usually, the opposite is true.

(all that in 2,500 words)

The Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers

The high price of Bermuda real estate

A haven for "multiple chemical sensitivity" sufferers is threatened

Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?

Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"

The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work

One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them

A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN

There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked

At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins

My life as a sissy

With the triumphs have come many disappointments

Can a website write me a new will?

The incredible saga of the bakery founder's loft

"He's a beautiful poet. But I don't think he was ever the greatest singer."

A review of the new American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

Lessons on leadership from the Torah

What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million park as an experiment, but not a monument?

Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form

Let's give the land a rest

How I became a middle aged father.

Thanks to Rem Koolhaas, Porto, Portugal will never be the same

Their new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation

David Mixner moves to Livingston Manor, New York

Thoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11

A new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space

For children of minimalists, only more is more

A very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy

45 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works

How the Statue of Liberty could be recreated, after a disaster

The Holocaust survivor who birthed a rock star

How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway

Merce Cunningham animates Philip Johnson's estate

Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another shiny office park

The controversial journalist and activist opens the (guarded) gate of his Rio de Janeiro home

His subtractive approach has countless applications

A Gossamer Serpent in New Canaan

Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score

A town where Vietnam draft avoiders have made a difference

"Is Harvey gay? I don't know. I don't sleep with him."

My father's bad investment

And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?

Not as green as we might hope -- or as Apple might suggest

A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener

A review of the cold accommodations

Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever

Gallerist Max Protetch and Museum Director Irene Hofmann fill their Santa Fe home with art

The gay backstory of New York's Irish Hunger Memorial

My life as a juror.

Give Calatrava a chance!

Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village

A proposal for improving New York's streets.

The gentle architecture of Phase Three

A brilliant way to privilege underprivileged children

The lives of Steven Lofton, Roger Croteau, and their foster children

Was I being practical, or paranoid?

Architects get busy after 9/11

The great critic, curator and connector

An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture

The Freedom Tower could become a true symbol of freedom

Uber and Tinder are just the app-etizers

A quiet alternative to Kyoto

Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"

Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"

Roger Duffy remakes the mega-firm

Transgender students gain rights, and respect, in college

Princeton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time

An old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor

Following 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.

Around the world in 20 slides

A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation

Since it opened in 1995, Bruder has been able to bring the building into the 21^st century without compromising his architectural vision, of which flexibility was a key part

Saving two rusting piers in the Hudson River

The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?

How HomeVestors went national

The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture

Events of the summer of 1969

Two great artists as lovers

Many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most evocative drawings were by Marion Mahony Griffin

Mourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street

The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation

A thrilling installation at the Dia Center for the Arts explores tranlucency; it's like seeing snow for the first time.

A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"

Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.

Falling for the Infinity Razor

Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations

Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread

My assessment of Ground Zero, in 2018

A review of The Full Monty on Broadway

A sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.

Can a house alone on a mountainside in British Columbia possibly be “climate positive,” as its architects and developer claim?

A quirky magazine's farewell

Some buildings just couldn't be saved

Perhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.

A magical new building in SoHo

Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride

Bloomberg's impact on New York earns mixed marks

Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.

Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?

Climbing a volcano in Bali.

Foreword to "52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom: Effective Strategies for Raising Respectful, Happy Kids" by Meg Akabas

A history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words

A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)

Tired of high real estate prices? Consider the alternative

The late David Miranda, in his prime

An interview with Leah Adler, Steven Spielberg's mother

What does it mean to be "inscribed in the book of life?" My interpretation.

In 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 

Living rent-free, Cal Lane makes her mark

Another embarrassing U.S. pavilion, courtesy of a shortsighted Congress

Amazon is now the place to sell used books -- but with unexpected consequences

Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof

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

Blue blood meets white architecture in New England.

Baby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture

Because our lives depend on it!

Because of Hide/Seek, its brave and beautiful show on sexual identity

A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching

A puppeteer copes with Parkinson's disease