Cars can’t help but affect the built environment, since they constrain so much of how we design and how we live.  We devote a big chunk of...

Every so often, there’s a brief span of years in which innovation comes thick and fast.  In the area of building technology, the Roaring T...

Not long ago, in a pleasant, Sixties-era neighborhood of California ranchers, I came across a renovated house that looked all too familiar...

Some years back, the FBI raided San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection and arrested an official for allegedly taking bribes fro...

It’s been almost forty years since the architectural and decorative style known as High-Tech hit the American scene. Arising during the mi...

Thanks to the old stereotype of the architect hunched over a drafting board, tee square in hand, many people still think that an architect...

We Americans are a puzzling bunch.  We travel to Italy, France or Spain and come back smitten with the charmingly walkable streets, close-...