The late David Miranda, in his prime
Published in OutThe controversial journalist and activist opens the (guarded) gate of his Rio de Janeiro home
Published in OutBecause of Hide/Seek, its brave and beautiful show on sexual identity
Published in OutIn Central Washington State, Painter Leo Adams unveils his masterpiece: a house that gives new life to found objects
Published in Metropolitan HomeBecause our lives depend on it!
Published ArchitectA thrilling installation at the Dia Center for the Arts explores tranlucency; it's like seeing snow for the first time.
Published in BlueprintGallerist Max Protetch and Museum Director Irene Hofmann fill their Santa Fe home with art
Published in DeparturesA sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.
Published in Architectural RecordIgnoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Published in Speeches / talksIgnoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"
Published in Speeches / talksCan a house alone on a mountainside in British Columbia possibly be “climate positive,” as its architects and developer claim?
Published DezeenA 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 RecordMaking buildings resilient does not slow climate change. Usually, the opposite is true.
Published ARCHDAILY
Not as green as we might hope -- or as Apple might suggest
Published in The Architect's NewspaperDiller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin
Published in BlueprintThe Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers
Published in The Huffington Post(all that in 2,500 words)
Published in A+U (Japan)Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey
Published in The New York TimesA very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy
Published in Architectural RecordA country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)
Published in Introspective (1stdibs)One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them
Published in Architectural RecordFourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride
Published in Architectural DigestA history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words
Published in BooksHis subtractive approach has countless applications
Published in Architectural DigestAnd What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?
Published in Architectural DigestShould the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?
Published ArchitectOMA's design seems to hit all its marks
Published in Architectural DigestUber and Tinder are just the app-etizers
Published in Metropolitan HomeFollowing the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form
Published in Interior DesignBy performing "constituent services," legislators short-circuit the democratic process, weakening separation of powers, equal protection, and other constitutional norms
Published in The New York Times
Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another shiny office park
Published in Architectural RecordThe zany artistic duo of Kahn & Selesnick spin fantastical worlds that captivate collectors and critics alike
Published in Introspective (1stdibs)Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"
Published in Architectural DigestA new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space
Published in The Architect's NewspaperAmerica's housing disparity grows worse
Published in The Huffington PostThe gentle architecture of Phase Three
Published in Architectural RecordA review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"
Published in BlueprintSome buildings just couldn't be saved
Published in The New York TimesAndo, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations
Published in Architectural Record"He's a beautiful poet. But I don't think he was ever the greatest singer."
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of FameThe Holocaust survivor who birthed a rock star
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame"Is Harvey gay? I don't know. I don't sleep with him."
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of FameIt will be great for the city's economy, its infrastructure, and its reputation
Published in Design ObserverTheir new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation
Published in BlueprintWhat does it mean to be "inscribed in the book of life?" My interpretation.
Published in Speeches / talksPerhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.
Published in The Wall Street JournalA quiet alternative to Kyoto
Published in The New York TimesWith the triumphs have come many disappointments
Published at fredbernstein.comGive Calatrava a chance!
Published in Architectural RecordForeword to "52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom: Effective Strategies for Raising Respectful, Happy Kids" by Meg Akabas
Published in 52 Weeks of Parenting WisdomAn old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor
Published in Architectural RecordAnother embarrassing U.S. pavilion, courtesy of a shortsighted Congress
Published in Los Angeles TimesSurviving the Holocaust with needle and thread
Published in The New York TimesA roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener
Published in Metropolitan HomeLiving rent-free, Cal Lane makes her mark
Published in The New York TimesMany of Frank Lloyd Wright's most evocative drawings were by Marion Mahony Griffin
Published in The New York TimesMerce Cunningham animates Philip Johnson's estate
Published in Interior DesignMourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street
Published in Interior DesignA town where Vietnam draft avoiders have made a difference
Published in The New York TimesMy father's bad investment
Published in The New York TimesThe contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?
Published in The New York TimesTired of high real estate prices? Consider the alternative
Published in The New York TimesThe incredible saga of the bakery founder's loft
Published in The New York TimesThere's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked
Published in The New York TimesWas I being practical, or paranoid?
Published in The New York TimesAmazon is now the place to sell used books -- but with unexpected consequences
Published in The New York TimesGustavo Bonevardi in the West Village
Published in The New York TimesSam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north
Published in The New York TimesAn interview with Leah Adler, Steven Spielberg's mother
Published in The Jewish Mothers' Hall of FameDavid Mixner moves to Livingston Manor, New York
Published in The New York TimesFalling for the Infinity Razor
Published in The New York TimesVisiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England
Published in The New York TimesGorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof
Published in The New York TimesAt home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins
Published in The New York TimesThe high price of Bermuda real estate
Published in The New York TimesWhy Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever
Published in The New York TimesThe conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Published in DwellA brilliant way to privilege underprivileged children
Published in The New York TimesA review of the cold accommodations
Published in The New York TimesHow HomeVestors went national
Published in The New York TimesVisting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages
Published in The New York TimesThe difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture
Published in MetropolisA haven for "multiple chemical sensitivity" sufferers is threatened
Published in The New York TimesThanks to Rem Koolhaas, Porto, Portugal will never be the same
Published in The New York TimesThe Freedom Tower could become a true symbol of freedom
Published in The New York TimesHow Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway
Published in SurfaceThe great critic, curator and connector
Published in Architectural RecordA review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation
Published in Architectural RecordThe Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation
Published in The New York TimesBaby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture
Published in The New York Times45 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works
Published in The New York TimesA world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching
Published in ArchitectureTransgender students gain rights, and respect, in college
Published in The New York TimesBernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score
Published in The New York TimesThe lives of Steven Lofton, Roger Croteau, and their foster children
Published in The New York TimesA puppeteer copes with Parkinson's disease
Published in The New York TimesA profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN
Published in BlueprintA proposal for improving New York's streets.
Published in The New York Daily NewsPier 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)Santiago 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 TimesHow the Statue of Liberty could be recreated, after a disaster
Published in The New York TimesSaving two rusting piers in the Hudson River
Published in The New York TimesPrinceton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time
Published in The Princeton Alumni WeeklyProfile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.
Published in The New York TimesThe gay backstory of New York's Irish Hunger Memorial
Published in The AdvocateTekserve lives the Apple slogan
Published in The New York TimesA review of the new American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
Published in World ArchitectureBlue blood meets white architecture in New England.
Published in The New York TimesThoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11
Published in The New York TimesAn endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture
Published in ArchitectureCan a website write me a new will?
Published in The New York TimesA review of The Full Monty on Broadway
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London)Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?
Published in The New York TimesA magical new building in SoHo
Published in The Independent on Sunday (London)Climbing a volcano in Bali.
Published in The Washington PostThe 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 TimesThe veteran actor comes to dinner with the man who has spent decades hiding in plain sight
Published in The New York TimesFor children of minimalists, only more is more
Published in T Magazine (The New York Times)The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work
Published in Architectural RecordWhat if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?
Published in Architectural RecordSince 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 RecordIn 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