America’s housing crisis is not a glitch in the system—it’s a feature. For more than a century, exclusionary zoning has weaponized the single-family house, first to keep Black families out, then to ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

Like any good tactical urbanism project, it’s been an iterative process. It’s also important to note from a mayoral leadership and staff perspective, there was strong alignment several years ago that ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

I had been running Speck and Associates since leaving the NEA, and I made the lifestyle choice to keep it small. It’s been going great. I’ve had more than a hundred clients in 15 years, done more than ...

Since I don’t gamble, my favorite parlor game when I visit Las Vegas is to imagine the next themed hotel-casino that MGM or Sands is going to dream up. The Katmandu? The Bali? The Zanzibar? The ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

Recently, I resolved that I wasn’t going to be drawn into the silly posturing about how ChatGPT would take the jobs of every experienced architect on earth before 2030, but an intelligent post on this ...