Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.

Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.

A coupl e of weeks ago my friend Kira Gould, the architecture and design super-connecter, sent me an email saying, in essence, This looks new and interesting, maybe you should talk to this guy? The ...

On a recent visit to Europe, I had the opportunity to visit several new projects in Prague, Czech Republic, with Dalibor Fikr, a senior project manager with PENTA Real Estate, one of the city’s most ...

Our civilization has lost both a pillar and a buttress—one a brave, brilliant uncompromising, architect-Krier; the other a warm, funny, generous, friend and mentor Leo. Krier’s fate was to deflect the ...

Let’s begin with an anecdote. I was in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the passenger seat of my friend C.K.’s car, when we passed a woman walking by the side of the road. “This poor woman,” C.K. remarked. ...

Every so often, although not often enough, along comes a book that turns the way you look at a topic upside down. Carl Elefante’s Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...

The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the spirit.

A talk with Sam Carter, a founding principal at the Resilient Cities Catalyst.