Thomas Fisher

It’s time for designers to grapple not just with physical objects but also with the underlying processes that influence our buildings and landscapes.

A leading academic and journalist argues that architecture criticism is ripe for bold reinvention.

A forgotten but vital chapter in the career of America’s most illustrious landscape architect: Olmsted’s brief stint as head of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.

How can cities prepare for a viral pandemic? An architect traces the links between urban design and public health, from the plagues of medieval Europe to the H1N1 outbreak.

Designers need to focus less on reacting to crises after they happen and more on proactively intervening in disaster-prone areas, with the goal of limiting future damage.

Much U.S. infrastructure is “fracture critical” — vulnerable to catastrophic and systemic failure; so too are our finance, housing, and energy systems.