Almost three years ago -- before I had visited Detroit, curated an exhibit there, made friends, and bought a house there -- my partner and I filmed this video. Staged as a call for entries for our Detroit- and Brooklyn-focused art and architecture exhibit...

Perhaps the New York Times' Michael Kimmelman said it best, in the concise lexicon of 140 characters, when he tweeted on election day, "Hope post-election, we can finally take big steps as a city, region nation to deal w costs, plans re: climate change. Beyond giant levees." Now that...

It feels like every architect in New York may be in Venice, Italy right now for the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by British architect David Chipperfield, the theme of this year's Biennale is Common Ground, which many pavilions have taken as an invitation to consider the political and social...

Arguably, part of being a contemporary architect is being aware of projects and competitions happening all over the world. Living in a city like New York, especially in Brooklyn, there are many more architects than there are local projects. That is probably an oversimplification. The truth may be more that...

Quick -- If you had to pick one city in the world where the spectacle of a dazzling capital enabled by peasant labor most closely resembles Panem, the fictional Capitol of The Hunger Games, which would it be?

There is, of course, no right or wrong answer...

When 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury was shot in 2004 in his own neighborhood, on the rooftop of a Brooklyn apartment building, the architecture community did not seem to notice. The police officer who shot the unarmed teenager said it was an accident, and a Brooklyn jury decided not to...