In Conversation

Writing happens in a place and is of that place. What happens when that place is San Quentin in the time of coronavirus?

What might be included in a decolonial pedagogy for architecture? An interactive, open-source curriculum offers some ideas.

An architectural educator talks about her life as an activist, about unionization and the design profession, and about cofounding The Architecture Lobby.

An artist and a writer talk about the slippery relations among art, architecture, and language; the powers of chance, gravity, and weather; and the seductions of the model and the mock-up.

Long forgotten and now restored glass plate photographs from the First World War reveal the brutal conflict with astonishing new clarity.

The former NYC Design and Construction Commissioner reflects on the legacy of the Bloomberg years, and the need for cities to take the lead in planning for climate change.

The founder of Stoss discusses the rise of landscape urbanism from an academic movement to an influential set of ideas and practices.

Ranging from Mumbai to Bogotá, from DIY design to Rem Koolhaas, a new documentary on cities is as kaleidoscopic as its subject.

One of the world’s foremost architects, on the challenges of maintaining a vital creative practice and confronting the new challenges of an urbanizing world.

A leading landscape architect shares his vision for a big new public park in New York Harbor.

What are the the challenges of transforming the Brooklyn waterfront, and  extending the city’s legacy of public parks?

Three influential practitioners consider the question: Is the architect the author of a building or the provider of a service?

Two visionary landscape architects discuss their work on contested environments from the Mississippi to Mumbai.

An urban designer describes his vision for the Rotterdam Biennale, and explores how cities can become more open, inclusive, and tolerant.