Trump’s Bizarre Plan to Make Architecture Classical Again
A fringe group of traditionalists persuades the White House to take its side.
Amanda Kolson Hurley
Amanda Kolson Hurley is a journalist in the Washington, D.C., area and the author of Radical Suburbs.
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Bettmann / Getty The Codes We Live By
Don’t snub building codes. These jargony construction standards shape the man-made world around us.
Gerald Herbert/ AP Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs
“Memory towns” promise to provide an aging population with dementia therapy and the accessible spaces of a bygone era.
Senior Helpers The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
A change to the urban skyline that could make a big dent in carbon emissions.
Lever Architecture (Rendering) Time-Travel Therapy
Can a faux 1950s downtown sharpen the minds of dementia patients?
San Diego Opera The Persistence of America’s ‘Easy White Enclaves’
As long as many white people choose to move out of suburbs as they diversify, one law professor argues, residential segregation will remain common.
george ruiz / Flickr ‘Drowning World’: Photographs of Floods From Haiti to Germany
“When the water is there, everything is kind of suspended.”
Gideon Mendel The Height of Efficiency
Cornell is building one of the greenest high-rises in the world.
Handel Architects Does America Still Want the American Dream?
Twelve years after work began on a $2 billion entertainment complex in New Jersey, is another giant mall still an appealing vision?
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