Architecture

Debbie Millman|Audio

James Biber

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, James Biber discusses growing up in a house with a womb chair, visual illiteracy and designing the Museum of Sex.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Downton Abbey: Fell In Love With a House

Downton Abbey, for all its melodrama and dropped teacups, is really the story of falling in love with a house.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Round Thermostats and Crystal Lanterns, Revisited

Old designs, new tricks: updates on lawsuits filed against the new Nest thermometer, and on behalf of midcentury masterpiece Manufacturers Hanover.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Memorial to (Random Access) Memory

What does "RAMAC Park" mean to you?

James Biber|Essays

Vestige(s) of Empire

Comparing the repurposing of two monuments to lost Empire: London's Commonwealth Institute and Berlin's Palast der Republik.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Girard the Magnificent

Is it enough to be gorgeous? If so, Todd Oldham and Keira Coffee's 15-pound Alexander Girard wins Book of the Year.

Alexandra Lange|Lunch with the Critics

Lunch With The Critics: Second-Annual Year-End Awards

From Twitter to Apollo, Barbie to Occupy Everywhere: The best and worst moments in design for 2011.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Decorating Brutalism: The Interiors of Kevin Roche

How do you decorate a brutalist building? For architect Kevin Roche, the answer was brown, mirrors, and trees.

John Cary|Opinions

Architecture's Internship Requirement Needs a Redesign

An argument for rethinking architecture's internship requirement

Alexandra Lange|Interviews

Architecture Research Office

Interview with Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky on the occasion of their National Design Award

Alexandra Lange|Essays

TWA: Still Kicking

Not a disappointment: a first thrilling visit to Eero Saarinen's legendary flight center.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Thinking in Tumblr

Don't write a book, make a Tumblr.