No matter how brilliant they may be, architects are responsible for their acquiescence to clients, whose desires eclipse all ...

Built Density or Floor Area Ratio (FAR): A real estate metric that measures the total floor space of buildings relative to ...

You have to go through these review and approval processes. It’s just part of doing buildings.” What’s really peculiar about ...

A 1970 collection of essays, Meaning in Architecture, was on everyone’s reading list (along with Collage City, The ...

Given the millions in padded salaries and consultant fees of those processing Malibu fire victim reconstruction plans—and the multimillions more in commissions for realtors, who hover like vultures ...

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 ...

A house is the ur-building, the quintessential embodiment of structure as shelter. Over time, as humanity evolved, it became deeply entwined with culture and commerce, with each one built reflecting a ...