If you follow the ongoing and often heated debate over housing policy in Massachusetts, you likely saw the viral moment at a recent Marblehead town meeting, when a resident—dressed like a stand-in ...

A cone of intersecting strips of red-white-and-blue woven vinyl fabric greets visitors near the entrance to A Temporary Exhibition of Temporal Public Spaces, on view at the Harvard Graduate School of ...

The zoning code has long been the primary policy target for planners seeking to increase housing production. More recently, however, cities that have already enacted meaningful zoning reform have ...

I begin with a confession: the first city I ever visited, outside of that big-shouldered metropolis close to my suburban Chicago home, was Walt Disney World. At least, the Florida theme park seemed ...

While the first article in this series on artificial intelligence (AI) explored how designers may be uniquely positioned to confront the technology’s implications, this second essay examines AI as a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) arrives at a time when the design fields face deep contradictions. How can concerns for sustainability reconcile with the need for growth? How can socially inclusive ...

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

The Stratos Project, announced to the public in April of this year, is a “hyperscale” data center planned for the rural Hansel Valley in Utah’s Box Elder County. If operating at its projected capacity ...

At a moment when forced displacement has reached historic levels worldwide, some of the most urgent urban questions are no longer confined to emergency response but instead concern what it takes to ...

The Peter J. Solomon (Class of 1960) Gate. Unless otherwise noted, all photos by Ralph Lieberman. Courtesy of Harvard University Press. What, pray tell, are such fancifully drawn characters as Peter ...

A shading pavilion in the park. A pop-up chapel in a parking lot. A pollinator tower in a plaza. These architectural interventions differ in material, form, and scale, yet they share a common purpose: ...

The handful of blocks immediately across Stoney Island Avenue from the newly completed Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago are a typical South Side hopscotch of ...