We all know that nothing looks more dated than last year’s red-hot style.  What’s not so obvious is why consumer styles-- whether clothes,...

I often get calls from nice folks who’ve drawn up their own plans and want me to check them for problems.  Some of these designs are wonder...

Years ago, when I was a punk architect in my twenties, I asked a well-known local contractor what he considered the most important factor in...

“The physician can bury his mistakes,” Frank Lloyd Wright told the New York Times in 1953,  “but the architect can only advise his client to...

Perhaps the most singular trait of American homes is the hollow, cardboardy thud of our gypsum-board walls.  No one else has anything quite ...

A few years back, at the height of the dot-com boom, I  came across a bronze plaque outside the headquarters of one of those instant interne...

Union Station, Washington DC: In the heyday of rail travel, you really know you were going someplace. (Architects: Daniel Burnham and. Er...