Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

I grew up in a domestic world that seemed to hospitably reconfigure itself around our family’s evolving interests and enterprises. As my younger brother’s model horse and airplane collections expanded ...

In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood in the middle of the narrow straits, had ...

If labor power—that is, a population’s potential to produce—was and is the most important form of “production,” the most central productive space is the house itself. Dogma, proposal for the ...

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, ...

The house will sit in the middle of the meadow, like an object, without spoiling anything. To transform space . . . it is first necessary to eliminate rigid objects, conventional receptacles: one must ...

March 2006 is the fiftieth anniversary of the First Urban Design Conference at Harvard—an event that, under the leadership of José Luis Sert, marked a beginning of the self-conscious pursuit of urban ...

It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...