Architecture never leads culture; it expresses who we are, when we are. And we’re in the middle of a collapse of 20th century ...

Architecture programs across the country are back in session, so what are students challenged with as the new academic year gets underway? I had a chance to sit down with Patricia Negrón Meléndez, a ...

A housing market can be short of homes and still have too many houses for sale. This may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. The contradiction disappears once we stop treating housing as a single, ...

Architecture has a relevance problem. Not within design schools, juries, awards programs, or the pages of professional publications—architects remain very good at talking to one another. The problem ...

An architecture student can now walk into a review with more images than understanding. This sounds harsher than I mean it, but in some ways, it’s extraordinary. A young designer can study a site, ...

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

In the heart of northwestern Europe, an unlikely swamp became an ingenious experiment in domestic architecture. The Netherlands occupied a precarious position in a delta where three of Europe’s major ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing and ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

The inflation-adjusted price of residential land in the U.S. quadrupled between 1975 and 2006. By 2025, New York City’s land values were estimated at $2.84 trillion. Manhattan’s land alone is valued ...

When people think about forward-thinking approaches to public space and landscape architecture, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are not often the first places that come to mind. More familiar images of ...