About twenty years ago, I went to Jerusalem as part of a planning group. Although rationally we knew better, we in this group were animated by the belief that, in trying to make a city more democratic ...

I was born a Sloterdijkian. When, thirty years ago, I was preparing the proofs of Laboratory Life, I had included in the pictures, to the disgust of my scientist informants, a black-and-white ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

Perhaps the most telling thing I found is that the definition of a charrette has changed. Most professional architects now equate charrettes with interactive brainstorming sessions. These kinder, ...

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 ...

What is the designed city, who wants to make it happen, and who designs it? Today most urban design professionals would say that a well-designed city has three components: it conserves the natural ...

4. a social milieu that aspired to become more visible to the outside world. Each of these lines had produced distinct and frequently contradictory results. While the first line would dominate in ...

Both contemporary minimal art and the terms of beginning design exercises frame the possibilities of creative endeavor on the specific attributes of a set of physical elements. The “syntactical” and ...

Surprisingly enough, the diffusion of the computer and the rise of digital culture seem to have exerted a less dramatic influence on landscape architecture than on architecture. Part of the ...