Architecture

Justin Ross Muchnick|Essays

Between Space and Place: The Entrance to the Churchill War Rooms Museum

If “place is security" and "space is freedom” how does an entrance to a museum celebrating an underground bunker define that boundary?

Alan Rapp|Essays

Personal Space

Robert Sommer’s Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design was published in fifty years ago, and its compact title concept — an invisible but perceptible security zone surrounding an individual — caught on.

Steven Heller|Essays

Hudson Yards Lays an Egg

On Thomas Heatherwick’s much anticipated giant honeycomb, 150 foot-tall “Vessel” structure, the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards outdoor plaza, bathed in reflective copper-steel, comprised of 154 staircases and 80 …

Laetitia Wolff|Profiles

Radical Architecture on Paper

NN Studio, a small Belgian design studio, advocates for emergent forms of architecture and urbanism.

James Cartwright|Essays

Architecture for the People: Bryan C. Lee is Taking Trust Back into Public Spaces

“Architecture is the most democratic and the least democratically used tool.”

Michael Bierut|Essays

What’s That Crashing Sound, Or, Eisenman in Cincinnati

I had chosen to spend five years in a place that many considered the ugliest college campus in America.

Thomas de Monchaux|Books

Something Elemental About Something Artificial

Exploring the complex space between the formal and informal, the formed and formless with LOT-EK.

Bill Shaffer|Essays

Modern Survivor

An enormous, glorious, digital clock: a quintessential expression of the design ethos of the 1960s.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S2E5: David Rockwell

David Rockwell is the founder and president of the architecture and design firm the Rockwell Group and a theatrical set designer.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E8: Leslie Koch

Leslie Koch was the president and CEO of the Trust for Governors Island.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Pierluigi Serraino

Debbie talks to architect Pierluigi Serraino about some of the things creative people have in common.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E3: Deborah Berke

Deborah Berke is the founding partner of Deborah Berke Partners, the architect of the 21c Museum Hotels, and the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.